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What remains after closure

This series continues the artist’s exploration of pharmaceutical materials in art — a gesture that shifts their clinical function into the symbolic realm. Through the technique of esparadropping — the intuitive placement of adhesive strips onto kraft paper without a predetermined design — the works emerge from chance, sometimes contained within the tape, sometimes spilling beyond it. The surfaces are layered with acrylic paint, pastel, graphite, and iodine — an antiseptic that stains, fades over time, and heals. More than color, iodine introduces time as a central element: to heal is to endure the passing of days, to accept the fading that marks the slow disappearance of wounds. But do wounds ever truly disappear? In these always unfinished pieces, kraft paper encroaches upon the image, suggesting an unresolved state — a wound held in latency. The figures depicted are almost ordinary, yet they evoke burning questions: property, man, technology, religiosity — the tragicomedy of existence. Nothing here is conclusive. What we see is an attempt — to cover, to expose, to make sense — never aiming to be definitive. Perhaps healing is this: learning to live with what never quite closes.

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