Rainbow Body Performance

Installation durational piece at Gazelli Art House during Frieze Art Fair London, October 2015.

Presented during Frieze Week 2015 at Gazelli Art House, Rainbow Body Performance is a durational installation-performance that explores the intersection of light, embodiment, and spiritual transformation. Drawing inspiration from the Tibetan Buddhist phenomenon of the “rainbow body” a state in which physical form is said to dissolve into pure light as a sign of transcendence, Brown’s work evokes the metaphysical dissolution and radiant energy of the human form.=

Suspended in the gallery space by rope, Brown inhabits a constellation of carefully arranged crystal prisms that refract and scatter light throughout the environment, activating the architecture and atmosphere of the white-cube space. Her still, suspended body serves as both a physical anchor and an energetic vessel, mediating between material presence and immaterial light.

The performance unfolds over multiple hours daily, inviting viewers into a contemplative space where light, body, and environment merge. The shifting patterns of refracted light interact with Brown’s form, blurring boundaries between physicality and immateriality, presence and transcendence.

In dialogue with Gazelli Art House’s concurrent exhibition Let There Be Light, Revisited, which paid homage to pioneers of the Light and Space movement including Mary Corse, DeWain Valentine, and Peter Alexander. Rainbow Body Performance expands this lineage by placing the body itself at the center of luminous transformation. Brown’s suspended form becomes a living embodiment of the rainbow body’s symbolic promise: a luminous dissolution and renewal beyond the confines of the physical.