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Added Oct 2, 2025

Urban Reflections The City as a Theatre of Light

The city is a theatre of light. Beneath its neon signs, its shopfronts and displays, it fragments and recomposes itself—like a mirror that never returns the image whole, but disperses it, doubles it, dresses it in echoes.

It is within this play of transparencies and opacities that my series Urban Reflections was born.

The Enigma of Shop Windows

Shop windows have always fascinated me. They open a paradoxical space: both inside and outside at once. They contain objects destined for desire, yet at the same time offer themselves as surfaces of projection.

The passer-by who lingers there does not only contemplate what is displayed: they also discover themselves, mingled with anonymous silhouettes, façades, and the murmur of the city.

Exploring the Fragile Boundary

To paint shop windows is to explore this fragile boundary. It is not merely to represent the city, but to give form to that ceaseless dialogue between what is revealed and what is reflected, between what attracts and what escapes.

An Invitation to the Gaze

Each canvas is constructed like a riddle. It compels the eye to oscillate, to cross the glass, to retrace its steps. It draws the viewer into a movement, inviting them to recombine the image, to seek a meaning that no single detail can contain on its own.

Light, Glass, and Reflections

Light, glass, reflection: these are my tools. They allow me to revisit the classical genres that captivate me—portraiture, still life, and the urban landscape—and to inscribe them within a contemporary language.

A Mirror Held to the Viewer

My Urban Reflections do not speak only of the city. They speak of us. Of our projected desires, our shared solitudes, our memories etched into the gleaming surface of glass.

For in the end, every shop window is less a window than a mirror.