Procesual Painting

2023

Painting, installation

Procesual Painting is a series of large-format canvases exploring the phenomenon of power and its impact. In this project, painting ceases to be the goal and becomes the instrument — a familiar language for the artist through which the mechanisms of change and the application of power are expressed. Being classically trained as an academic painter, I use this language as a means to express the process of transformation of the object.

Each work undergoes an intensive process in which the canvas becomes the object of external influence: paint, pigments, and glue are rubbed into its surface, causing deformation, tears, and damage. In each piece, the silhouette of a head is repeatedly rubbed out, symbolizing that power hides behind multiple barriers, masks, blurring its identity and erasing the signs that define it. This process repeats itself as a metaphor for how power becomes increasingly elusive and indistinguishable, hiding its forms and manifestations. In the later objects, their features disappear completely, smudged and deliberately erased, leaving a dull space of color.

The canvas transforms into a kind of “social body,” filled with traces of transformation, reflecting changes not only in the material but also in the social and cultural reality. These works capture the process of change directed at the individual, always hidden from direct observation and difficult to track. Ultimately, the canvases become not just images, but a metaphor for the application of power and its consequences. Torn and heavy, the canvases are hung in space on meat hooks, like distorted bodies.