Collective Shaping emerged from an intersection of Practices between Orsola Carraro and Adam Paquette.
Since 2017, we have engaged in a shared exploration of subtle energy and artistic communication.
The foundation of our collaboration is a durational movement-drawing practise, from which further research,
exhibitions and installations emerge, responding to particular catalysts of time and place.

We currently work out of Berlin, Germany.

Adam Paquette

B. Sydney, Australia, 1986

My work emerges from, engages with, and challenges traditions of the western canon of painting. My practice with Collective Shaping centres around the observation and documentation of life in movement, in order to circumvent habitual rationalities of form, perspective and technique. By freeing the ‘subject’ of painting from rigid servitude to a controlled gaze, risks and freedoms are afforded that make available new territories for the renewal of painterly thought.

Softening boundaries between conceptions of exhibition and studio spaces, I frequently work in public, to expose the artistic process as a reciprocal social phenomena. Observation ceases to be a one-way street, and the authority of the finished work surrenders to a visible and permeable material process. By choosing how and where to exhibit particular bodies of work, I am seeking to assert both the perennial rediscovery and relevance of a lineage of painting stretching back to our first rituals of mark-making, while recognising the innate imperative for art to exist in constant transformation and liminality.

My work has been exhibited and collected in Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United States.

Orsola Carraro

With attention to inner and outer space, I research movement.
My practice integrates fundamental axioms of Yoga and artistic research of Beauty. As movement artist I look for ways to share subtle energies through bodily language.

  • M.Sc in Architecture - Switzerland

  • Certified Pranayoga Method® teacher - Berlin
    Hatha Yoga / Pranayama / Yoga Nidra

I owe my passions to to the mountains of my home in Italy and to my family. After having completed the Master in Science of Architecture in Switzerland, I moved to Berlin and centred my work in interior and installations design.
Following the desire to explore how the body lives and feels the space I have dedicated 700 hours of Yoga teacher training and expanded my knowledge in the philosophy, practise and history of Yoga. Currently I teach regularly in Berlin and my classes explore and embody the energy centres - Chakras - merging different body-systems. I have explored the nourishing, calming and creative power of the digestive and respiratory system and integrated fasting and pranayama practices in my teachings.
I dedicate my career to the research of the body between spaces and between states, sharing the unique value of the Practice.