The ______ of ____ with ____ & _____ 003 & 003.5, 2026
Acrylic and household paint on neodymium magnets and galvanized steel sheet
70 × 70 cm each (diptych)
This diptych questions the stability of identity by allowing painted fragments to migrate freely between two independent paintings. As elements cross from one work to the other, the boundaries separating them gradually dissolve. The identity of each painting remains perpetually open, continually redefined through exchange.
The work asks where one painting ends and the other begins. More fundamentally, it asks how identity itself is constructed. Is it fixed, singular, and self-contained, or does it emerge through movement, encounter, and continual negotiation?
The migration of painted fragments becomes a metaphor for the contemporary condition, where cultures, histories, memories, and people constantly traverse geographic and psychological borders. Rather than proposing identity as a stable destination, the work understands it as a fluid process of becoming, shaped by displacement, exchange, and coexistence.
Neither painting is ever complete without the possibility of the other.
