Making a painting about an experience allows us to hold on to it.
The introspective world of the figures I depict keeps them moving between realism and abstraction, or between two worlds: reality and imagination. Setting up the paintings from photographic reference and then further developing them from memory opens up narratives that feel both contemporary and timeless.
Transitioning between places or between thoughts and realisations, the inner world of the depicted figures manifests liminality and, in this exhibition, refers to images of protesters standing up for their rights. This belief in setting something in motion oscillates between hope and reality, just like painting can be an act of translation from thought or the imagined to the visual and the tactile.
The abstracted and often brightly colored environments propose a sublime experience that reflects the psychological state of the portrayed figures. These paintings, just like one's memories, are distorted and full of glitches creating a more textured and layered reading of a both personal and shared reality.