Emmanuelle Collage

Hybrid portrait of a screaming figure, mixing myself and a real person, painted from memory and imagination. The portrait depicts my feeling of never having enough time to accomplish all the projects that I have in my mind, mixed together with aspects of an Emannuelle that used to be my superior in a previous job. She was always dynamic, stressed, in motion, working, working, first to come and last to leave the office. We had a connection of understanding and hate, respect and disdain, deeply I sympathized with her. The collage pieces with time notions ("Stunde" means "hour" in German - 1/2 hour, 1/4 hour) are taken from a vintage cooking magazine and it used to represent the cooking time of specific dishes. The fact that I transposed the cooking collage pieces into this serious context of workspace stress minimizes the importance of the modern notion of time - modern life is filled with stuff that make our time short, being constantly online and accessible, tons of information shared and available, tons of possibilities; but time is and should remain something that comes from inside and that we give to ourselves.