Recent Paintings

Recent Paintings is a series of oil paintings on discarded potato chip bags collected from the street. Emerging in the post-pandemic context, at a time when the contemporary art world was still undergoing a process of reconfiguration, the series is directly linked to the notion of transformation. Composed of materials with inherent collapse and instability, these discarded bags engage with fast-food culture and the tensions between popular culture and so-called “high” art.

The works speak to the craft of being a painter and the need to create an identity to insert oneself into an increasingly large and competitive circuit. The series attempts to reflect on how art is produced, circulated, and valued within a system dominated by the logic of galleries, fairs, and commercial institutions.

In the contemporary context, identity operates as a structural requirement for the circulation of goods, images, and subjects within the global market. The need for differentiation, indispensable for standing out in a system of mass production, transforms singularity into a visibility strategy. In this way, identity becomes a functional device: a recognizable surface that guarantees permanence within the flow of consumption.

In both material and symbolic production, value is defined less by the depth of its content than by its capacity to attract attention. In this growing era of social media, visual impact emerges as a new form of capital, where perceptual effectiveness replaces reflection and immediacy is imposed as the criterion of relevance. Following this logic, authenticity is confused with stylistic consistency, and individual expression with the brand. However, this same dynamic poses a fundamental paradox: the more effective an image or identity becomes within the system, the more limited its critical power becomes.