About
Artist
Statement
My creative production revolves around classic figurative painting and self-portraiture, often combined with surreal reflections. I explore themes of nostalgia, loneliness, anxiety, and alienation, seeking a balance between beauty and the grotesque. I work in both painting and photography, frequently blending the two mediums.
I begin my painting process by taking photographs and enjoy experimenting with reflective materials, such as a bendable copper chrome plate to distort reflections. Details play a significant role in my work, featuring elements like jewelry, fabric patterns, and hair as personal attributes.
My art intertwines classical traditions with modernity, deconstructing the timeless beauty of Renaissance and Baroque representations of Venus into fragmented forms. Influenced by the theories of Freud, Jung, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, I represent unconscious desires and the illusory nature of the self, using body distortion as a metaphor for the crisis of classical beauty ideals and modern identity, balanced on the edge of the sublime and the grotesque.