In my paintings, I am interested in creating an image where destruction and construction live together. From the war and breakdown sites, from damage and loss, I am creating the process of reverse archeology. Instead of excavating the ruins, I build them up, creating new world with a multi-layer technique of color surfaces, demarcation and subtraction. 

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Working with color leads the painting, almost guiding it, and in this dialogue, which takes place between the touch of color and the surface of the painting, the landscape breaks down into stains and shapes, disintegrates and is being rebuilt. The process of painting creates for me a way to experience what my eyes have not seen. Alienation, collapse and layers of destruction, pile up my paintings one on top of the other, allowing me to reassemble the destruction of my own home, which stems from migration and the search for belonging. The way I do the painting and the long work process creates a timeline for my new "ruined" world. 

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On the built axis of time of my work, I witness the way the color itself gnaws at the texture of the painting, distorting and dismantling it. During my work process, I am ready to release the hold on the primary and concrete images. This liberation enables me and the images involved to embark on a journey of abstraction and detachment, in a continuous dialogue between me and the surface of the painting, which for me is a continuous testimony to the confrontation, the experimental space and the encounter at hand.