Daisies

Artist Statement

My practice focuses on tempera painting. I paint self-portraits. My works hover between figuration and abstraction, conveying feelings rather than vision. I am particularly interested in showing the world through the prism of a queer body. I examine the fluid boundary between its inside and outside. I observe the body in close-up, close enough for the distinction between abstraction and figuration to lose its importance, allowing the image of the body to escape normative frameworks. In this way, I construct self-portraits painted from an intimate, multisensory perspective.

Abstraction allows me to bring together sensations from different senses through synesthesia. I use colour and shape as carriers of sensations and emotions. My painting is also shaped by my interest in cinema, particularly the aesthetics of horror and the emerging Feminist New Wave.

I see my works as one of many queer and female voices, woven into a multi-layered story about reality. Alongside the individual painting process, the collective experience of working on exhibitions is equally important to me, and, above all, so is building spaces of mutual support and empowerment. I understand artistic practice as a field where bonds and alliances are formed.