collage

This series investigates the sculptural potential of painting through processes of detachment, reconfiguration, and adhesion. Layers of paint are first separated from their original substrate, then repositioned and affixed to a new support using glue. This act of reattachment generates folds, warps, and structural irregularities — forms that are not entirely controlled, but emerge from the interaction between material behavior and manual intervention.

Beyond its material logic, the work echoes the fragmented experience of cultural displacement. Like the paint film, identities that have been uprooted and relocated do not reattach seamlessly. They carry the tension of multiple geographies, languages, and histories — forming new, provisional structures that are both unstable and resilient.

The folded surface becomes a quiet metaphor for the body in translation: stretched between origins and outcomes, shaped as much by loss as by adaptation.

paint collage: displacement as form