Belle-Île
The search for form and colors in the paintings is inspired by the landscape of the French island Belle-Île, where I was hiking and by now I think it’s one of the most beautiful nature I’ve seen. In April everything was in bloom, unusual colors appeared in this part of the year. I turn landscapes that I embodied in my analog photographs into painted forms and shapes.
#homesweethome
Not so long ago, we were living in a time when we were all settling back into our homes, which we notice anew, complain about, appreciate, and build our everyday life around. Home has taken on an entirely new meaning. It has become a place for the diffusion of various spaces, such as those for work, school, sport, entertainment, and socializing, and this has changed schedules, domestic practices, and routines of many people. Home is a symbolic space, an asylum, a refuge, a security, a habitat for memories. As Martin Heidegger writes, what exerts pressure on the human condition is his home. That is why home is a space, and man is the one who organizes, changes, and inhabits this space. Home is a microworld, a knowledge of the world, a sacred space to the householder. In this research-art project during the art residency in Chapêlmèle in France in 2022, I was an ethnographer who was looking into other people's representations of homes on Instagram, where one can see culturally diverse houses and a variety of practices happening at home. I chose selected photos marked with hashtags of home in different languages and did painting sketches, creating a collective representation of home.
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