Fragments is an ongoing line of work in the studio. A series that speaks of many things at once, in dialogue with the Pământeşti project as well as more recent concerns. These are pieces in which the center of interest lies outside the composition: more than the figure itself, what matters to me is what escapes the viewer’s gaze. Hence the violent rupture of the frame, the tension of what is represented.
As in the world, reality is ungraspable. And sometimes, when I present these works and don’t want to speak about what truly inspired them, I turn to myths: the dream of Ariadne, and the story of Selene and Endymion. The first reveals a context in which, despite the heroine’s efforts to help the hero (Theseus), she is abandoned on an island, and a dream envelops her toward a new stage of life. The second, the tale of Selene, goddess of the Moon, and Endymion, the shepherd condemned to eternal sleep, has helped me express parts of my own story: the suicide of my partner, and myself, staying and escaping, like Selene, from a definitive absence.
To represent, or not, pain and suffering is, for me, an unresolved question. I choose to approach painting through a sense of responsibility toward the viewer… and also a certain responsibility toward my future self.