The Language of Her Painting: Mastery in Motion
Fangyou Belleli paints time.
Not its ticking, but its trembling—when presence becomes so pure, it disappears. Her monumental portraits, painted live in minutes, are not performances of speed but declarations of truth. Each brushstroke captures a flicker of life before it vanishes. To hesitate would be to miss the soul’s signal.
Her materials—tracing paper, suspended like veils—echo this ephemerality. Light passes through. Figures shift as you move. The painting breathes with the room, resisting permanence, asking you to feel, not fix.
She does not paint the visible.
She paints what is about to disappear.
Her practice is rooted in ancient time-consciousness:
Chronos (measurable), Kairos (felt), and Aïôn (eternal).
Painting becomes a rite—a collapse of past and future into the now.
Then, as quickly as it came, the gesture ends. The sacred becomes digital. The work dematerialises into images, reels, captions. This is not a defeat—it is the paradox she embraces. To create beauty that refuses illusion. To honour presence in a world addicted to projection. Her work is a debate against forgetting.
A portrait of time itself.
A gesture that outlives the hand.