Artist Statement
My work navigates the tension between presence and absence, fragmentation and wholeness. Through both sculpture and drawing, I explore how history preserves and erases, and how the human form asserts its presence despite vulnerability and restriction.
In my drawings, the body is more than an aesthetic subject—it is an act of agency. In societies where nudity in art is censored, its absence shapes artistic education and perception. My work resists these limitations by depicting the figure authentically, beyond imposed narratives.
As a sculptor, I engage with materials like clay, which embody both history and fragility. Influenced by the shattered remains of Tullio Lombardo’s Adam, my fragmented sculptures examine what is remembered and what is lost.
Ultimately, my practice embraces impermanence. Art, for me, is an ongoing dialogue—an exploration of instability, transformation, and the ways in which presence persists even in its absence.
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