Arête
Oil painting on canvas
150 x 100 cm
The paintings explore identity as a process in transit, constructed from cultural and emotional fragments held together by fragile, shifting connections. Rather than a unified body, they present compositions of heterogeneous elements—textiles, ornaments, and vegetal forms—linked by fine lines that create an unstable network. These delicate, mobile relationships suggest that what constitutes us is never fixed or entirely secure, reinforcing the idea of memory as a fragmented, non-linear archive in which everything coexists without hierarchy.
The floral forms are not merely decorative; many reference Egyptian symbols such as the lotus, associated with rebirth and cyclical renewal. Yet these motifs appear displaced and transformed, like remnants of a cultural memory in continuous reconfiguration. The lines connecting the elements can be read as routes of travel—like those of Odysseus—but also as symbolic passages between life and death, memory and forgetting.
Within this web, fragments seek connection in order to move forward, merging and camouflaging into one another until their boundaries dissolve. Identity thus emerges as mobile and adaptive, not preserved intact but transformed through relation and partial disappearance into the other, while revealing the invisible structures that sustain these connections.
Solo Show "Myth along the branches"
Fragile Realities, Curated by Pola Van den Havel , ArtDüsseldorf, Germany 2026
Now the rain will fall / Birds will bring another song
Oil painting on canvas
100 x 70 cm / 100 x 80 cm, 2026