CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Journey of a Manuscript follows a text that leaves its author and searches for a new corporeality, moving across bodies, skins and material surfaces.
The project examines how writing is marked, carried and transformed as it migrates—absorbing traces of each person or creature who encounters it. It presents the manuscript as a living organism that outgrows authorship, continually remaking itself through displacement, contact and renewed embodiment.
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR: JOURNEY OF A MANUSCRIPT (PAST)
80 × 80 cm
Mixed media
Mixed media
CAPTIVE TO THE BOOK (CURRENT)
102 × 102 cm
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
BODIES FOR THE TEXT (STUDY)
"Network Bodies" examines how human presence becomes entangled with the structures, systems and diagrams that organise contemporary life. The project follows the ways bodies absorb, resist and echo these surrounding frameworks, revealing moments of vulnerability, protection and quiet negotiation.
Through a dialogue between technical precision and emotional resonance, it traces the delicate threshold where organism and system meet, diverge and shape one another.
ARCHITECTURES OF CARE
100 × 75 cm
Laser engraving from hand-drawn vector on acrylic glass
Laser engraving from hand-drawn vector on acrylic glass
HIDDEN SYSTEMS
71x50 cm
Laser engraving from hand-drawn vector on anodized aluminium
Laser engraving from hand-drawn vector on anodized aluminium
“USBrush” explores the meeting point between digital logic and human gesture, presenting a sculptural USB-brush as the project’s central object and a series of three oil paintings that translate its motif into painterly form.
Across these works, the brush becomes both a tool and a conduit — a device through which creation flows in two directions: the artist shapes the system, and the system, in turn, shapes the artist.
Taken together, the series reflects on how emotion, memory and authorship circulate within technological environments, revealing a feedback loop in which handmade expression and coded reproduction are inseparable.
USB-BRUSH (SCULPTURAL OBJECT)
Mixed media on aluminium
USBRUSH: PAINTED WORLDS (OIL PAINTING SERIES) (PAST)
70 × 50 cm
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
“The Pendulum Brush” explores the meeting point between mechanical rhythm and artistic gesture, using the hybrid pendulum-brush as a symbol of oscillation between automation and human agency. Across the series, the brush operates both as a measuring device and a creative tool: producing, erasing and transforming images with the same repetitive motion.
These works consider how individuals and stories move through contemporary systems of perception, and how the artist’s gesture can still interrupt, redirect or challenge the mechanisms that govern attention and meaning.
THE PENDULUM BRUSH
125x130
Oil and collage on canvas, pendulum-brush mechanism, custom frame with figurative elements.
Oil and collage on canvas, pendulum-brush mechanism, custom frame with figurative elements.
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