STATEMENT

Identity rarely holds a clear shape anymore — it appears more often as a pause,   a flicker, a soft trace in           a system that reads us faster than we can form a thought. My artistic practice begins in that pause. I paint in the space between impulse and interpretation — in the moment when I’m no longer sure whether what I feel is truly mine, or something suggested by an algorithm, an interface, or a culture of visual habits.

While rooted in painting, my practice constantly intersects with the aesthetics of digital systems. I use elements like error messages, system windows, loading bars, or fragments of interfaces — not as decoration, but as structural devices that reflect how today’s visual environment shapes the way we perceive and present ourselves. These forms are not symbols — they are real forces that shape how identity is processed, read, and overwritten.

I often return to the self-portrait — not as a statement of identity, but as a record of a version. In my paintings, the self is treated like a working file: unfinished, edited, broken, or partially overwritten. A face might appear, but framed like a pop-up window. An emotion might surface, but misaligned — like a corrupted image file. What emerges often looks familiar, but doesn’t feel like mine.

My work explores the blurred boundary between recognition and representation. We live in an environment that favors what is instantly legible, shareable, and searchable. The faster something is recognized, the less it is required to be understood. Within that logic, identity becomes a format — a shortcut, a function.

I respond by painting slowly, deliberately. Not to define anything — but to hold open the moment of not-knowing. I am drawn to fluid states of being: the body in transition, emotions in flux, the self as a dynamic structure negotiating its meaning across multiple systems — digital, personal, cultural. My works are not answers. They are traces of negotiation. They exist in the lag between intention and interpretation.

For me, art is a space where ambiguity is still possible. A place where the image doesn’t have to behave.             A window that doesn’t ask for confirmation.