The Wall

From my studio window, you can see the elevation of an abandoned house. It will soon be demol-ished. A new, much larger building will be built in its place, and this change will come at the expense of the natural world surrounding the old building. Observing the view of nature, through the window with its constant, cyclical changes, became the main inspiration for the work presented in the exhi-bition.

Work on the concept and spatial shape of the presentation was spread over a period of twelve months; Starting with the day I was invited to put on a show at Gallery 72 and concluding a year later, during the opening of the presented work to the public.

The slow, day to day, repetitive work of applying successive layers of plaster to previously used canvases, gradually shaped them into cubes, measuring 15 x 15 x 15 cm. This was the second time these works were to be recycled. Originally, in 2016 for an exhibition entitled “Band,” in which I used unsuitable or unsuccessful acrylic and oil paintings of my own to create a new installation form. And now, for the purposes of the exhibition in the space of Gallery 72, these “ex” paintings took on the role of building material from which a 150 x 210 cm wall was built. Its form refers to the action of a single swipe of a smartphone screen, and the films projected onto it are two shots of the view from the studio window—the first recorded in November 2023, the second in the same month a year later.