My work revolves around figurative painting, mainly in the form of montage, collage and appropriation. Religion, sexuality and the collision of Eastern and Western cultures are recurring elements in my work and the basis for my work. The reason for the religious elements is that they relate to my personal religious experiences, which include my inner reflection about faith, my uneasiness about taboos, and my subjective feelings about religion, as well as my constant observations from both Eastern and Western perspectives. I tend to piece together first-hand feelings and second-hand images. Childhood memories, pictures from movie or newspaper, family photographs, this information leads me to assemble different fragments to form a personal vision. At the same time, sex is both beautiful and dangerous on me, and the depiction of sex in Georges Bataille's stories of the eye has had a strong impact on me, leading me to try to liberate my own body. With a strong interest in discovering Western traditions, I often use classical religious images in my work and combine them with everyday secular things, trying to portray a sense of the sublime in a secular context.

 

Influenced mainly by Gérard Garouste and Neo Rauch who approach to painting, my work has become ambitious in terms of technique and form, presenting a series of sensory images. My work is no longer limited by a single coherent or unified space, but uses collage to combine different elements and scenes, resulting in a more dynamic image. At the same time I am influenced by Gilles Deleuze's idea of decontextualization and I am constantly drawing on classical art historical elements to escape from the fixed structure of the image. This process of constant generative change is open-ended and aims to create new fluxes, possibilities of becoming. I want to take the immediate reality as a starting point and use the classic symbolic elements and the power of history to make new images in an interesting and contemporary way.

 

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