The Menacing Face of Order (Red & Green Failure)
With the series Expect Nothing, Appreciate Everything, I continued questioning contradictions that I experience and that most people take for granted. In this case the disproportionate placement of the colors in the Google logo was the trigger and led me to the company’s global categorization and therewith to the disappearance of spontaneity. In relation to my own conflicts with obsessive perfectionism, I translated this into new abstract self-portraits in which an interaction unfolds between straight and spontaneous lines. In search for that sublime experience of the in-between, the spontaneous lines alternate with the straight. The colours go up against the white paint, while the pattern is constantly in conflict with its breakthrough. To take the viewer into that moment of in-between, I also created sound and video works to complement and oppose the creative process.
Between Order and Adventure #1
Acrylic on 300 g. Fabriano Artistico paper
50 x 50 cm
2018
Between Order and Adventure #2
Oil on 300 g. Arches Huile paper
50 x 51 cm
2018
Translations and Interactions
Acrylic and oil on linen
60 x 60 cm
Video (shown alongside the painting at offline exhibitions)
8:45 min
2018
Other Way Around #1
Acrylic, oil and tape on 300 g. Hahnemühle paper
30 x 30 cm
2018
Between Order and Adventure #3
Acrylic and oil on 300 g. Arches Huile paper
50 x 50 cm
2019
Other Way Around #2
Acrylic, oil and tape on 300 g. Hahnemühle paper
70 x 100 cm
2019
Beauty Between the Rules
Acrylic and oil on linen
120 x 120 cm
Sound (painting process)
2:00 min on repeat
2019
In-Between
Acrylic on linen
100 x 140 cm
2019