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Acrylic on wood
60 x 60 x 11 cm
2021
My work engages with sacred imagery not as devotional illustration, but as a contemporary visual language for exploring human interiority, memory, and transcendence.
Drawing from Byzantine iconography, theological narratives, and early Christian symbolism, I re-approach these forms through a contemporary painterly practice. The icon functions in my work not as an object of worship, but as a conceptual structure: a space where image, time, and presence converge.
I am interested in moments that precede or follow the canonical narrative — the silent intervals, the unspoken gestures, the psychological and existential dimensions of biblical figures. Through stylized forms, restrained color palettes, and symbolic composition, I aim to suspend the viewer between history and the present, between belief and doubt.
Sacredness, in my practice, is not bound to institutional religion. It emerges as an experience of attention, vulnerability, and inner stillness — a threshold where the visible meets the invisible.
My work proposes sacred art as a living, critical, and contemporary field: one that does not reproduce tradition, but re-opens it.
Acrylic on wood
60 x 60 x 11 cm
2021
My work engages with sacred imagery not as devotional illustration, but as a contemporary visual language for exploring human interiority, memory, and transcendence.
Drawing from Byzantine iconography, theological narratives, and early Christian symbolism, I re-approach these forms through a contemporary painterly practice. The icon functions in my work not as an object of worship, but as a conceptual structure: a space where image, time, and presence converge.
I am interested in moments that precede or follow the canonical narrative — the silent intervals, the unspoken gestures, the psychological and existential dimensions of biblical figures. Through stylized forms, restrained color palettes, and symbolic composition, I aim to suspend the viewer between history and the present, between belief and doubt.
Sacredness, in my practice, is not bound to institutional religion. It emerges as an experience of attention, vulnerability, and inner stillness — a threshold where the visible meets the invisible.
My work proposes sacred art as a living, critical, and contemporary field: one that does not reproduce tradition, but re-opens it.