Nodus Tollens Painting

Continuing my exploration on the theme of human identity, I returned to a more realistic style of painting from a need to reject generalizations, searching for the unique narrative of the individual’s life. I am interested in the uneasiness of forming and giving up different personal identities. I chose to paint elderly people in an intimate moment of confusion and solitude, still waiting, still slipping into brief moments of questioning their identification with their current situation. I sometimes used contemporary symbols in these paintings in order to yet again question adherence to a ready-made identity, contemporary symbols to which these modest characters seem to be indifferent. Irony is born through the juxtaposition of the quasi-immortal logos and the poetic vulnerability of these individuals.