The ______ of ____ with ____ & _____ 005 & 007, 2026
Acrylic and household paint on neodymium magnets and galvanized steel sheet
95 × 70 cm & 100 × 70 cm (diptych)
This diptych investigates painting as a cognitive system capable of existing in multiple material states simultaneously. One work begins with the inherited convention of the painted support, while the other exposes the galvanized steel itself as an active component of the painting. Together they reject the notion of a singular or definitive condition of painting.
Movable painted magnetic elements circulate across both works, allowing each composition to remain perpetually open to revision. Meaning no longer resides within a fixed image but emerges through the changing relationships between materials, surfaces, and participants.
Developed from a research that began in the mid-1990s, the work proposes painting as an adaptive framework rather than a resolved object. Tradition and experimentation, permanence and transformation, image and process coexist without hierarchy. The diptych suggests that painting continues to evolve not by abandoning its history, but by continually renegotiating its own conditions of existence.
