Lotus Flower is an investigation about the spatial phenomenon in painting. It suggests the idea of metaphysical heterotopias by stimulating the viewer’s intuitive sense of interior and exterior space(s). The title evokes its in-between situation.
I see art as connected to life. And in these last years the circulation of catastrophic images: documenting the refugee crisis and the effects of climate change had a great impact in my work. I have filtered them as images of death. Foucault's heterotopia of the cemetery came along. The sea is becoming the ultimate cemetery - a highly heterotopian place. But water is also the cradle of life. So this whole idea of death and life made me think about rebirth.
Lotus Flower for the symbolic connotations of the concept and its connection to the Ancient Egypt, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism beliefs in rebirth, light, purity and enlightenment.
