Secret Mechanisms explores the relationship between figuration and abstraction, with the human figure as central subject. The contrast between figuration and abstraction signifies an emotional threshold where representation and social standards are examined. The compositions are focused on investigating the shifting concepts of the human body and its environment. Contemporary discoveries in anatomical technologies have profoundly changed how one perceives the human body. In this work, the human figures are depicting a kind of repellent contemporary beauty in an age where science fiction and artificial body parts are no longer fiction.

Secret Mechanisms explores how technology can alter perception by interacting with the methods and processes involved in how the human body works. The tension contained within the bodies of the characters, due to the pervasive technologies, communicates a sense of contemporary environment in its fractured state.

PAINTINGS 2008-2009                                (click image to enlarge and hit the back button to get back here)                                                                                                   

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