Insect Paintings
2022 - present
The Insect Paintings presents a series of works that explores notions of symmetry, multiplicity, the formation of a body, and the in-betweens. These kaleidoscopic paintings start with an initial symmetric grid. Circles cover the entire canvas and the black paint constructs a body in the in-between spaces of the circles - where all the shapes meet each other. These paintings propose a view to the body, and not necessarily human-centered bodies, as these two opposite forms of growth (endogenous, exogenous) in mutual interaction.
Diving into several layers that deal with notions of a body understood as the in-between of voids and volumes, the embodiment of multiplicity, and a speculative research on zoology beyond a fact-based representation, the Insect Paintings treats painting as sculpture: where void and volume play a role for constructing a body.
Ultimately, the Insect Paintings aim to express the potential of embodying an in-bewteen attitude to create new spaces: two-dimensional and graphic at first glance, the intersections optically evoke another dimension, folding inwards and outwards; a poetic of space.
Gonatista Grisea
2024
Pseudopanurgus
2024
Miomantis Caffra.
2022
Argiope Rurantia
2024
Chlorophorus Annularis
2024
Polistes Gallicus (Vespidae)
2022.
Lucanus Cervus (Jepri).
2022
Eumenes Coarctatus.
2022
Argiope Rurantia (2)
2024
Chlorophorus Annularis (2)
2024