FORGETTING WHERE I CAME FROM

2024

Drawing and installation Cotton paper, powdered pigment, aluminium pipes, scaffold couplers, variable dimensions

Forgetting Where I Came From is a drawing woven between scaffolding elements, cotton paper saturated with powdered pigment, drawn on both sides, carrying the faces of the artist's family. The images are dense and layered, yet resist the demand for clear definition or fixed meaning. In this practice, drawing is not a tool of articulation but of retreat, a space where things can remain unnamed.

The work makes this literal. The drawing is interwoven with the scaffolding so that each obscures the other in turn, rendering both structure and image partially invisible. What is hidden invites imagination; what is shown withholds as much as it reveals. The faces surface and disappear, present but not fully recoverable, much like memory itself, and the places and people that quietly recede from it.