This interdisciplinary performance is a collaborative project between Leslie Molina (visual arts), Paulina León (contemporary dancer), and Jhonathan Valdivieso (contemporary dancer and musician). Developed as part of Leslie Molina’s solo exhibition Blending, the work was presented in collaboration with Distrito de Diseño y Moda in Panama City, unfolding within the historic architectural context of Edificio Heurtematte y Cía.

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The performance brings together sound, movement, and painting in a dialogue with shadow as both material and metaphor. Valdivieso constructs a synthesized sonic landscape that inhabits the threshold between presence and absence, the visible and the concealed, generating an atmospheric field where perception becomes unstable and expanded. Through León’s choreographic language, shadow acquires corporeality; movement renders it intimate and sentient, revealing its emotional density and its capacity to function as an interdimensional extension of the body.​ Within this immersive environment, Molina engages shadow as an active collaborator. Responding to its shifting forms, she extracts threads as conceptual gestures, translating ephemeral encounters into material traces on canvas. These fiber interventions operate as visual notations of internal tension, symbolic structures, and emotional undercurrents, informed by a process that oscillates between intuitive response and analytical observation.

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At the culmination of the performance, shadow undergoes a transformation into light. This transition proposes metamorphosis not as opposition, but as continuity. Darkness becomes a site of potential illumination, suggesting that within obscurity lies the possibility of expanded awareness.

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Curatorial contribution by Ana Gallo.

Artistic contributions by Franco Assenza, Milton Scantelbury, Liz Molina, Lizbella Molina, and Andreina Sistiaga.