You wanted to be a pattern

2021-2022

In recent years I transferred my thoughts into paintings, using language and text as pictorial elements. I drew portraits of a personality and used text as a substitute for depiction. I was fascinated about letters as signifiers: they are traces of a culture identifying itself in narratives.

While I was working on this new series, I used spontaneous drawings which I created mostly before falling asleep. I used these half-unconsciously drawn little forms as image building components. By shrinking, enlarging and moving these forms I planned compositions as if I was arranging a collage or playing with puzzle. Later, in the process of painting I focused on the colours. I was interested in communicating something unsettling. In these pictures emotions are transformed into abstract and absurd forms, and they are kept behind a wall, the flat surface of the colours. These flat areas, each covered with a certain colour gives calmness to the paintings. This calmness stands as a counterpoint to the disturbing character of the works. It turns their content from emotional expression to statements, based on knowledge. My aim was to show emotions alongside with my thoughts on them.

The silkscreen prints can be understood as pairs of the paintings, showing something similar, but in a minimalistic way. For me they are like letters from a private alphabet, symbols of a hidden meaning. They relate to a thought with the simplest forms.