FRAGMENTS IV, 2014 Painting

[…] this painting is a part of my exhibition with the title: What remained", is a continuation of the previous unity of my work entitled Places. They are ‘places’ in the sense that I differentiate place from landscape. Landscape is something that we usually observe while place we primarily inhabit… In this way then the ruins, as another place, bear the traces, the signs of time that has passed, and simultaneously the stamps of the present. The present of today’s crisis which all of us living confronts does not only refer to an economic, social and political reality that’s crumbling. It is mainly the nature of human relations that changes, but also the landscapes of our inner world that have been perturbed by the crisis. These multifarious rifts that we are all living through gave me the incentive for this work[...]Nostalgia, damaged houses, loss, imprints of deterioration, memories of what used to be, walls that stand up to time but upon which is also written the history and everyday stories of ordinary people. Photographs that become personal frescoes, feeling and memory. I’ve always been interested in the particularity of wall surfaces but also of stucco as material. A material that also recounts in its own language along with me [...].