BOY ROOM, 2017, Installation
When you have been growing up as an
adolescent in a dysfunctional home, in which, no one understands your feelings
and emotions. When you have never
been free to speak or share your opinions about life. At that moment everything
is falling into pieces. Pieces out of which you can make urgent responses.
Through fearful or traumatic times you
cannot make anything. Other people’s powers dominate and control you. However
there becomes that moment where you begin to feel that amazing journey begins
inside you my dear Love.
I will start to open all spaces for you to
make a body of work that can exist in your ideas of how home can be.
When I start to make work I start to use home-style
magazines to respond to with the feelings that I felt as a boy. I begin with
the desire to create the home I always wanted, where I could express my
feelings.
This site-specific work, reflecting a time
of melancholia is inspired by Picasso’s blue period, Yves Klein’s international
Klein blue paintings and the colour of the
ocean beyond the window.
I try to give a sense of the boy becoming free within an
interior space. I use painting and collage to urgently respond to what I
already know.
