ABOUT THE ARTIST
I grew up in the aftermath of war, where silence was not absence but a dense presence that shaped perception, memory, and identity. My memories are not fixed narratives, but fragments that shift, dissolve, and return in altered forms.
My practice emerges from this condition of memory. Through painting, sculpture, and writing, I translate lived experience into visual form. Rather than reconstructing the past, I am concerned with how it persists internally—as traces, ruptures, and quiet repetitions.
Material is central to my work. Layers of paint, surface tension, and acts of erasure operate as carriers of memory, where visibility and disappearance coexist. Each work holds destruction and repair without resolution.
Although rooted in personal experience, my work reflects on how war shapes perception more broadly, particularly in children, whose eyes often carry a fear I recognize from my own experience. These traces do not disappear with time; they remain inscribed in memory and behavior.
The work resists closure. It remains open, holding fear, resilience, and fragile renewal in a state of continual becoming.