But today it is different, 2022
This body of work is about reclaiming the pleasure in painting, the energy I had before, or in the first years of, art school, before the need to make sense conceptually . I study paintings from the history of art that I love for their energy and composition, especially by Rubens and Delacroix, images from the news and pornographic magazines. I create my own narratives, bringing the past in dialogue with the present. I explore a sense of fleshiness as color and movement, creating figurations of a fluid materiality. I find a connection to the philosopher George Bataille’s view of eroticism as the dissolution of discrete beings.
In a final event in the exhibition, I collaborated with a performer and a musician, to create an immersive environment, including sound, and the audience as participants. The aim was to create a different viewing experience based on intimacy and openness.