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Exploring multiple versions of self through painting Acrylic on canvas ↓ Works & projects

Joined December 2021
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For me contemporary art is not a particular visual style. It’s not a set of techniques that makes a work “contemporary,” nor is it about constantly following what is happening in the art world right now
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I increasingly see my practice as a form of research. For me, a painting is a way to understand something more deeply and to see what I myself have not yet been able to put into words
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Perhaps that is what being a contemporary artist means to me today: not trying to look contemporary but exploring my time through my own language
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Before this I was exploring the state in which several possible directions exist in front of a person at once. But what happens when none of them leads where you truly need to go?
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The fourth work in the series is about the state that comes after this realization. The moment when the familiar system of possibilities stops working, and the future no longer looks like a continuation of the path that once felt like your own
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Here the space becomes heavier while the figure becomes less defined. Ghosts of Decision is about the fact that we don’t only lose the things we consciously choose to leave behind
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With this painting I wanted to capture that exact state when one reality has already become your own, while the others still exist somewhere alongside it
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For me painting is not only about creating an artwork. It’s also a way to express myself. Simultaneity of Selves became exactly that kind of conversation
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Behind this work is a process of research. I wasn’t interested in simply creating an image but in understanding how to visually express a state Sometimes I don’t know where the research will lead until I start painting
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What happens to a person who hasn’t made a final life decision yet?
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I want this series to be experienced not as five separate paintings, but as one story. Each work is a chapter in the exploration
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I think every generation speaks its own language. Once it was poetry. Then it became cinema. Today when we are surrounded by thousands of words and images every day it has become much harder to find something that truly stays with us
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I believe contemporary art is one of the few languages capable of speaking about things we still don’t have words for
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Perhaps that’s why I continue to paint. Not because I have the answers but because sometimes an image can reveal more about a person than an entire text ever could
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It doesn’t matter much to me whether you like my work or not. What matters far more is whether something inside you pauses when you look at it
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Sometimes it’s anxiety. Sometimes curiosity. Sometimes rejection. Sometimes the sense that a work is speaking about something deeply personal, even if you can’t explain why
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If you leave a painting carrying a question, a thought, or an emotion that stays with you longer than a few minutes, then a real dialogue has taken place between you and the work
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