Living Canvas
Transformations
2025 - Stretcher Bars and Eyelets
For the paintings still in my possession, the stretcher bars have been removed. Eyelets have been added around the edges of the canvas.
Made between 2005 and 2007
Theme:
In this series, I bring video and painting together in a single work. A moving image is projected onto the canvas, causing the painting to lose its static nature. The canvas comes to life: colors become more intense, and the boundary between projection and paint begins to blur. The result is a hybrid artwork in which two media strengthen one another.
Materials: oil on canvas
2007 – Scanning Cows for the Next Revolution
The title is visualized literally: cows walk through a meadow while two projected bars move slowly from left to right across the canvas. A monotonous ticking sound accompanies their motion.
As the bars shift, the faces of Stalin and Mao light up brightly; on a laptop in the foreground, Hitler appears. The scanning occasionally disrupts the image, accompanied by a menacing tone. The work explores apathy and uncritical herd behavior — how people allow themselves to be swept along under the influence of authority and power
2006 – The Luxury of Replaceable Goalkeepers
On the roof of a hotel in the desert, the owner kicks balls toward a goalkeeper.
Sometimes the goalkeeper catches the ball, but at a certain moment it flies past the goal. The keeper sprints after it and plunges down. The hotelier laughs at his fall. Moments later, a new goalkeeper appears to continue the game, as if he were easily replaceable. The work highlights the alienation of modern humanity: through an excess of wealth, we lose touch with fundamental human values.
2005 – ‘Happy Beating Heart’ versus ‘The Whistlers’
The “characters” in this work are lines. The red line is the Happy Heartbeat line — you can hear the heart beating faster.
The other lines are the Whistlers: each time they appear, they whistle Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Monty Python. Eventually, a kind of attack takes place. The theme is terrorism — the tension between lightness and threat.
2005 – Nu descendant par un ascenseur
This work is a contemporary interpretation of Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912).
I created two versions: a painting and a spatial piece. On the canvas, the viewer sees an elevator descending, represented by colorful, moving horizontal and vertical bands. The painted fragments are stills from the video. Each time a frame from the film passes over its corresponding painted section, the colors subtly light up.
