Longing for wholeness

Here is a longing experienced in the body: two elongated, fragile silhouettes, placed on different pedestals, as if on two levels of the same story. They look for each other with outstretched arms, and the distance between their palms becomes the stake of the work. We do not see the embrace, we do not see fulfillment, but that suspended moment in which closeness is possible, but has not yet happened.

Their gesture is essential: hands outstretched, almost touching, but without really grasping. In this hesitation, one reads something very human: the relationship in which two people want to be together, but something - time, mood, pride, fear, indecision - remains between them like an invisible threshold. 

The bodies are simplified, like cut and bent metal shapes, and the faces, reduced to signs, do not individualize. It is precisely this lack of clear portraiture that makes the scene universal: it could be a couple, it could be a breakup, it could be a delayed reconciliation, it could be the moment before a farewell. Their leaning towards each other suggests that each is shifting their center of gravity from themselves to the other - but the risk remains: if one approaches and the other does not, a fall becomes possible.

The pedestals, two tall volumes, almost like towers, also say something: each person stands in their own "world", in their own position, in their own height or isolation. It's not necessarily superiority, but distance in life: sometimes people love each other, seek each other out, but come from different places, with different rhythms. And the work captures exactly this negotiation of proximity.

That is why, Dor de entre is about the need for completion, but also about the fragility of the encounter. The whole is not automatically made of two halves; it is built, risked, decided. And the sculpture chooses not to give us the ending, but to leave us at the truest point: when two beings still hope that the space between them can be crossed.