PERFORMANCE SERIES: ECHOES ON THE WALL, FEATURING INGRID SILVA, ELIAS RE + VINÍCIUS FREIR
PERFORMANCES: JUNE 12, 7PM (RSVP), JUNE 18, 7PM (RSVP), JULY 20, 2PM (RSVP)
ROSALIND TALLMADGE: PAREIDOLIA
OPENING THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 6—8. ON VIEW JUNE 13 — JULY 26, 2025
CARVALHO announces the 3rd edition of its acclaimed performance series, with a commissioned, architecturally scaled installation by gallery artist, Rosalind Tallmadge, in collaboration with globally renowned Principal dancer and activist, Ingrid Silva, with Elias Re and Vinícius Freire. Tallmadge’s ten-panel tapestry installation of mirrored mica on silk, titled Pareidolia, coalesces to a faceted luminarium, refracting light and the dancers’ forms off its glimmering surfaces. Silva’s choreographic work, Echoes on the Wall, will be performed on three occasions, on June 12, 18, and July 20.
Apertures to human connection, Tallmadge’s compositions of hand-cut mirrored mica – formed by thin layers of liquid silver on silk – require corporeal presence to come fully into being. The work’s illusory, cloud-like contours offer the reflections of both dancers and audience, while also obscuring them. Speaking to contemporary reflective obsessions, the installation seeks to harness a desire to re-root in a sense of self: individually, collectively – and through the gallery’s perpetual stream of light – in the phenomena of nature.
In the tradition of Light and Space Movement artists such as Mary Corse, Doug Wheeler, and Larry Bell, the installation issues transformation through physical, chemical, and elemental means. Mineral becomes glass-like, while light, air, time, and bodies are integrated into the work. Through the process of making, the silk structures began to represent totemic bodies for the artist, catalyzing an impulse to seek oneself in the suspended forms. The artist states “art as an action” as a means to counteract self-isolating and divided realities, heightened by a mounting dominance of the digital sphere in our behaviors.
While the audience lines this gallery-scaled luminarium, as viewers are pulled into the panels’ illusory wakes, the dancers are the bridge. With this collaboration, Silva expands her international reputation as one of the leading performing artists of her generation, now honing her voice as a choreographer. Silva, Re, and Freire, set their movements through the mirrored surfaces and shrouded forms – the audience tracking them through the gauzy transparencies of Tallmadge’s installation. Silva’s dance work considers the emotional architecture of the stories we build, break, and lean against, as well as their mutability. As choreography engages the inherent impermanence of Tallmadge’s installation, Silva translates the mercurial relationships between body and art object, individual and space.
Performance series are commissioned by CARVALHO, New York, and curated by Director, Jennifer Carvalho. The biannual series invites both visual and dance artists to reimagine their creative process. It draws dance out of the theatre and into the collective consciousness, while bringing visual art into the realm of movement and performance—opening possibilities for both forms. Commissioned collaborations between performing and visual artists consider how disciplines are transformed through collaboration, as limitations are eclipsed, creating new intersectional approaches and total, synthesized works.
Performances are free and open to the public, but due to the limited space, an RSVP is required: rsvp@carvalhopark.com
Ingrid Silva (b. 1988, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an activist and among the most prominent figures in contemporary classical dance. Her international career began in 2007 with Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York, one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the United States, where she currently holds the position of Principal Dancer. She is known for her roles in George Balanchine’s Glinka Pas de Trois and Agon; Robert Garland’s Return; Ulysses Dove’s Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven; and John Alleyne’s Far but Close. She has also danced soloist roles in works by Lark, Ascending by Alvin Ailey, and Contested Space by Donald Byrd.
Silvia is widely recognized for her work as an activist, particularly her fight against racism. In 2019, Silva received her first pair of skin-toned pointe shoes—a symbolic moment that garnered worldwide attention and spurred discussions on representation in ballet. Her hand-painted shoes are in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s permanent collection. Silva has served as a Cultural Ambassador for the US State Department, and spoke at the United Nations in 2018 and at the UN Summit in 2025. In 2020, she co-founded Blacks in Ballet and also founded EmpowHer.
Sliva has been named one of "20 Women of Success" by Forbes Brazil and participated in the 14th LEAD Conference at Harvard University. She was the first African Brazilian to be on the cover of Pointe Magazine and appeared on the covers of Vogue Brasil and Harper’s Bazaar Brasil. She is also the author of two books: her autobiography “The Pointe Shoe That Changed My World” (2021, Globo Livros) and the children’s book “The Ballerina Who Painted Her Pointe Shoes” (2023, Globinho).
Rosalind Tallmadge (b. 1987, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a multi-media artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Tallmadge holds a BFA from Indiana University, Bloomington, 2010, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2015. Her work has been acquired by international public and private collections and has been exhibited widely in New York, Brussels, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, and Seoul. Recent solo and two-person shows include Pareidolia (CARVALHO PARK, 2025); Aether (CARVALHO PARK, 2024); Moonlight Room (CARVALHO PARK, 2022); Unearthed (Arden + White, 2022); Terrain (David Klein, 2021); The Supernal Plane (CARVALHO PARK, 2019); and Embodied Earth (David Klein, 2019). Tallmadge's architecturally-scaled installation, Pareidolia, acts as the site for a performance collaboration with internationally renowned contemporary ballet dancer and activist, Ingrid Silva, Principal with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Other notable exhibitions include With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art since 1932, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In 2023, Opus One commissioned an installation of five site-specific works, titled Les Elements, for the entry rotunda and Opus One’s permanent collection in Napa Valley, California. Tallmadge is represented by CARVALHO PARK, New York, and David Klein, Detroit.
CARVALHO (est. 2019) A synthesis of the Director’s background in performing and visual arts informs a distinct point-of-view that shapes the gallery’s cross-disciplinary program, privileging the sensorial experience of the art object and space. CARVALHO features international emerging and mid-career artists whose practices reconsider distinctions of increasingly fluid categorization – of the visual art, performing art, and craft realms – through dedicated inquiry and meticulous approaches to material and process. Exhibitions work to activate the viewer’s environment, expanding space for engagement and discourse between disciplines. At the close of 2023, on the cusp of its five-year anniversary, CARVALHO expanded its galleries into the adjacent building, doubling its exhibition space and program. The second gallery focuses on installation and performance, echoing the Director’s foundations, and allowing artists to realize more ambitious collaborations and projects.
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