I work in the fields of artistic printmaking and painting. I work primarily with stone lithography, treating it as a medium for reflecting on memory, space, and identity. In my prints, I construct mental landscapes – places filtered through memory, distorted by time and imagination. I draw on Marc Augé’s concept of non-places – anonymous spaces in which identity dissipates. It is precisely within such spaces that I search for traces – not as a linear narrative, but as fragments, afterimages, and signs of presence.
Lithography, with its material specificity and capacity for layering, enables me to articulate memory as a dynamic, ephemeral, and discontinuous process. The material I work with – the lithographic stone – holds fundamental significance for me. Its weight, rawness, and sensitivity allow me to reveal traces that are not errors but integral components of meaning. Cracks, scratches, edges become part of the image, and the stone itself becomes a co-creator. I do not treat lithography as a tool of reproduction, but more as a processual, conceptual act of constructing visual palimpsests – structures in which the past, the present, and the imagined interpenetrate one another.
Each print results from the multiplication and transformation of matrices, through which a unique visual noise emerges – a vibrating, grey texture that evokes fading memories. In my work, abstract backgrounds intersect with architectural elements, and the space above and below the horizon line accrues new meanings. I print compositions full-bleed, leaving them open, able to be rotated and rearranged in various ways – in keeping with the idea of the open work, both in formal and mental dimensions.
The art I create does not reconstruct reality. It is an attempt to capture what is fleeting: emotion, absence, emptiness. The image does not document – rather, it evokes, reconstructs, and obscures. Memory becomes an image, and the image – a form of continuous remembering and forgetting.