FLUID

In this series, the figure is understood as a bearer of traces rather than a self-contained presence. Bodies, gestures, outlines and painterly fragments appear at varying scales, as repetition, displacement or echo. The images develop an open field in which painting, drawing, plane and line coexist, rather than a clearly defined space.

The figures remain partly fragmented, overlaid or withdrawn from view. Faces, body parts and postures emerge while becoming less clearly defined. This creates a visual language in which memory is organised through material and composition rather than narrated. The motif appears as something that continues to act within the image, rather than as a completed representation.

The series combines painterly density with graphic marks. Translucent washes, drawn contours and fields of colour create a tension between presence and dissolution. Earlier states of the image, possible source images and remembered images of bodies remain visible as visual remnants and are brought into new relationships.

The image thus becomes a repository of its own making: a place where fragments, repetitions and gaps form different layers of time. The work follows the logic of an archive without illustrating it. The archive appears here as an artistic method, as a process of transfer, displacement and transformation.

Ongoing series since 2002