Emotional surface
In my work, I seek to share my profound and enduring fascination with water, a connection deeply rooted in my childhood memories. My dialogue with the water’s surface—its shifting reflections and subtle motions—has over time led me to develop my own visual language: a method of scanning and capturing water’s fleeting gestures. These aesthetic behaviors, especially in contrast with other liquids, reveal something deeply emotional, what I’ve come to think of as liquid emotions. On its surface, water becomes a stage where different moods and temperaments emerge and interact.
To me, water is not simply a subject, but a living presence. I try to liberate the surface from its volume, to treat it not as a container but as a character, granting it its own identity and framing it within its own visual logic. The surface of water becomes my canvas, and my exploration is devoted to understanding its boundaries, its dimensions, its voice.
In my final installation, I have lifted the water’s surface, literally and conceptually. Not only to reveal its form from the sides, but to invite the viewer to peer beneath it. Below, there is black oil: a mesmerizing and natural substance that we humans have displaced, extracted, and repurposed, turning it into a curse we now live with. By setting these two liquids in relation, I attempt to evoke their contrast and to make visible the delicate boundary between them, a threshold where nature and consequence meet.