Scar, diptych

"Scar, diptych"
canvas, original technique, 2x40x40
2024

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The rupture runs not only between the two panels of the diptych, but through the entire field of the work — like a boundary that has already become internal. The white does not offer air; it acts as pressure. Red emerges in flashes of pain and memory, while black, deep blue, and ochre masses tighten the space and turn it into an environment of compression. The eye moves from one panel to the other, yet finds no release: form flows, breaks, regathers, and movement itself begins to feel like a route set in advance. Division here is not simply a compositional device, but a mode of experience — when wholeness is still remembered, yet can no longer be fully restored.

In the Enclosed Spaces series, space does not function for me as a background, but as a psychological force that slowly grows inward. That is why the scar in this work is not the mark of a completed trauma, but a form of prolonged inner existence under pressure. The diptych holds a state in which proximity and separation coincide: the two parts reach toward one another, yet the boundary between them remains impossible to cross. The tension comes not from a single dramatic gesture, but from a repeated experience of limitation, in which the surface itself becomes a wall, a route, a memory, a trap. In that way, vulnerability turns into structure, and space into an inner wound.