Artist book | Mix media on paper | 2021
Profiles is a pictorial series presented as an artist book in accordion format, where expressive portraits and short texts unfold in a fragmentary narrative sequence. Each spread offers a “minimal psychological profile”: a face suspended between what is said and what is withheld, paired with a microfiction that acts as an echo or interruption of meaning.
The mixed-media paintings explore the gestural expressiveness of the face as a surface for affective inscription, while the texts open spaces of ambiguity, pause, or linguistic dislocation. The folded format reinforces the idea of discontinuous reading and allows for multiple visual articulations. This work forms part of the broader research project Sensitive Ontologies as an autonomous constellation that investigates the relationship between identity, language, memory, and representation.
PROFILES
1.
He believes he’s become unreadable.
In the middle of a crowded room, he smiles. Not because he’s happy, but because the shape of his mouth has forgotten all other gestures. There is a performance happening behind the eyes. He’s not sure who the audience is anymore.
2.
She whispers only to test the silence.
The back of her head knows more than her lips ever told. She isn’t lost—she’s rehearsing. Each pause, a line break. Each blink, an edit. She exists between thoughts, precisely where grammar fails.
3.
He carries his questions like a borrowed coat.
Too big in some places, too tight in others. He’s grown used to the discomfort. He no longer remembers the original question—only the weight of asking. His face is not concerned with answers, just the echo.
4.
She watches him forget her.
A look suspended in the space between recognition and retreat. She was once known, but now floats just beyond the edge of memory. The eyes soften—not from sorrow, but from distance. She knows what he’s trying to remember, but she won’t help.