Traces

Traces

A small sketchbook as a space for layering and blurring. The background is painted in bister, evoking the warm, antique tones of yellowed manuscripts and Renaissance drawings. Isolated fragments from an art history book appear on it: a hand, a headscarf, a piece of fabric, feet bathing in water.

These details recall classical sculptures and paintings, in which bodies are often preserved in parts - think of broken ancient statues or fragmented frescoes. Like time, sandpaper erodes parts of collages, fading and reappearing forms. What remains is a dialogue between presence and absence, a reconstruction that is never complete.