Artist Statement

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My work is a search for meaning in what is missing. Through oil painting, fabric sculpture, and installation, I explore memory and trace as marks of absence, signs that reveal presence only through what has been lost. I attempt to discover the moment of rupture, which leads me into the spaces between: presence and absence, connection and contradiction, the surface of a mask and what lies behind.

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Fabric is central to my practice. Torn, reshaped, and reassembled, it becomes both skin and shelter, holding ephemeral imprints of memory. For me, memory is the cocoon in which identity is formed. The rupture, distortion, and reassembly of fabric are metaphors for the fragmented process of constructing identity.

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The mask, another recurring motif, allows the exploration of identity as layered and fluid. I treat the mask not as a barrier but as a site of negotiation, where tension produces forms that are grotesque, unsettling, and alive. The friction between what is shown and what is concealed mirrors the negotiation of identity, where each decision to reveal or to hide shapes who we become.

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My paintings extend this dialogue into the social realm. They function as distorted architectural representations, questioning modernism’s rationalist claim to truth. Just as a mask mediates selfhood, architecture mediates culture: it is more than physical form, it is the body where our culture, understood as a collective mind, resides. By exposing contradictions beneath its so-called objectivity, I reimagine architecture as iconography, fragments of an unstable modernity that reflect the ways we negotiate our shared lives.

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Across all mediums, my practice is a form of contemplation through the act of making. Meaning remains fluid until it finds its shape in the work. Each piece is both a meditation and a negotiation: a physicalized self-discussion.