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Added Sep 27, 2025

Artistic Statement

My Urban Reflections series explores the fragmentation of reality as it manifests in the shop windows of contemporary cities. Through painting, I aim to capture those fleeting moments when the outside world - passersby, cars, buildings, street signage - merges through reflections and shifting light, with the interiors of storefronts where displayed objects appear through layered transparencies.

I never work from a single photographic reference. Each painting arises from a complex assembly of materials : multiple photographs, observational drawings, live model sessions, digital collages. This process enables me to construct a coherent and convincing image that is a reconstructed reality, fabricated from fragments that conveys the illusion of a fleeting moment spontaneously captured.

The anonymous human figures I depict - in motion or at rest - blend into a visual arrangement where spatial markers are deliberately blurred. The fragmented composition does not deliver an immediate reading; instead, it invites the viewer to reconstruct the scene and build their own interpretation.

The vivid, warm colors I employ intensify the visual presence of these urban fragments and heighten the sensory, almost cinematic, quality of these everyday moments. Through the superposition of planes, reflections, an transparencies, I seek to question how we perceive a world saturated with images and to offer a way of seeing that compels us to pause.