FOXTROT AROUND THE PIANO, 2013

Inspired by Jane Campion's The Piano, Foxtrot Around the Piano explores the intimate, charged relationship between body and instrument — a dialogue of physical contact and spiritual energy.

At the heart of each canvas, the grand piano operates as both stage and structural axis. Rotated into a new orientation in every work, it becomes a constant yet shifting architecture around which all else moves.

Through Campion's lens, bringing a piano to Aotearoa was symbolic: it was meant to stay, to take root. Around it, figures embody a different dance with each composition, evolving from the measured elegance of the foxtrot to the falls and lifts of rock and roll.

Heimler & Proc capture the passions of life and the inexorable passage of time, freezing fleeting gestures of desire, abandon and connection against the enduring, sculptural presence of the piano — tracing both a single evening and decades of shifting social mores.