Biography
My artistic journey could be said to be multidisciplinary. Over the years, I have created many works by experimenting with different techniques: painting, performance and site-specific
installations.
My attention has gradually become focused on social themes. My work aims to describe the past and encourage discussion of the future. This is because I think that art has a role in driving social awareness through its hybrid multidisciplinary approach. My interests in anthropology and sociology have helped shape this way. In the last few years I have been working on a series of paintings inspired by classic aesthetics but made using contemporary journalism images. The three works presented - “The Raft", “Kurdish greetings” and “Portrait of a migrant woman” - are part of this project.
The aesthetic research is done by selecting news imagery from print and online media, which are then worked on in such a way as to evoke an aesthetic connection with classical art - in terms of the composition, subject and narrative power. These initial images are the fruit of a painstaking photo- montage of many reportage images and aim to evoke the narrative force of historical painting styles, creating a temporal bridge. The painting uses the typical dot formation seen in newspaper printing presses. I wanted the painting to be objective, and this technique, which could be described as ‘scientific’, allowed me to achieve this result.
However, since the canvases are painted dot by dot, in a single colour, they require time, space and
observation from the public. No image or form is recognisable close-up, but by moving further away, the subject slowly appears and details can be picked out.
