2021
2019
Paintings
Drawings
2018
Precipitated Drawing Series
My main interest is to comprehend Drawing as a social tool. Therefore, I chose an institution since I believe that they develop our ideas and personalities. As an Artist, I was trying to find a place where I could understand myself, thus, I decided to go to prison and discover emptiness. After visiting HM Pentonville Prison, I realized that I wanted to dignify the inmates for allowing me to draw them. The whole experience was transformative.
Most of the materials were found in the garbage. Now, they are pristine, they reborn. My increasing interest in the marked and unmarked space has heightened the need for making new solutions for the self-contained object and the ground. The study of ‘emptiness’ has become an important aspect of the scope of my artwork. Therefore, the marked and unmarked space is the unity of the division between mind and hand, and the subject is a reflection on Memory.
My images are not static at all, they are constantly changing. Everything is intended, the figure and the untouched space are one.
Most of the materials were found in the garbage. Now, they are pristine, they reborn. My increasing interest in the marked and unmarked space has heightened the need for making new solutions for the self-contained object and the ground. The study of ‘emptiness’ has become an important aspect of the scope of my artwork. Therefore, the marked and unmarked space is the unity of the division between mind and hand, and the subject is a reflection on Memory.
My images are not static at all, they are constantly changing. Everything is intended, the figure and the untouched space are one.
Drawings
The Gift
'How can another see into me, into my most secret self, without my being able to see in there myself? And without my being able to see him in me. And if my secret self, that which can be revealed only to the other, to the wholly other, to God if you wish, is a secret that I will never reflect on, that I will never know or experience or possess as my own, then what sense is there in saying that it is my secret, or in saying more generally that a secret belongs, that it is proper to or belongs to some one, or to some other who remains someone. It's perhaps there that we find the secret of secrecy. Namely, that it is not a matter of knowing and that it is there for no one. A secret doesn't belong, it can never be said to be at home or in its place. The question of the self: who am I not in the sense of who am I but rather who is this I that can say who? What is the- I and what becomes of responsibility once the identity of the I trembles in secret?'
― Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death
Exploration on the idea of the Gift after Derrida. These oil portraits are for those who helped me in my journey. I asked for nothing in return. They are 'true' gifts.
― Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death
Exploration on the idea of the Gift after Derrida. These oil portraits are for those who helped me in my journey. I asked for nothing in return. They are 'true' gifts.
British Museum
Copying and studying Drawings and Watercolours by William Blake made me understand the plastic urgency of examining different layers of meaning in my own practice.
Thanks to these artworks, I explored the idea of how to create a dialogue between the self-contained object and the ground to bring into existence a process within a continuum. They also made me realize the necessity of developing a visual representation of ideas related to the concept of how we contemplate a work of Art.
Thanks to these artworks, I explored the idea of how to create a dialogue between the self-contained object and the ground to bring into existence a process within a continuum. They also made me realize the necessity of developing a visual representation of ideas related to the concept of how we contemplate a work of Art.
Portraits