CULTURAL LAYER

Culture rarely disappears overnight. More often, it changes gradually: some ideas lose their meaning, others emerge in their place, while traces of the past continue to exist alongside the present. We live within this ongoing process, inheriting the world of previous generations while simultaneously shaping the one that will remain after us.

Cultural Layer is a project about the relationship between people and the environments they create. Architectural ruins, fragments of cities, artificial landscapes and unusual figures form spaces where the past, the present and imagined futures coexist. These worlds do not depict a specific catastrophe. Rather, they reflect a state of uncertainty in which familiar points of reference lose their stability, and people are compelled to find their place within a changing reality.

The figures within the paintings often appear out of scale with their surroundings. At times they seem too large for the cities they inhabit; at others, so absorbed in their own games and concerns that they fail to notice what is happening around them. This tension raises one of the project's central questions: to what extent are we aware of the cultural and historical environments of which we are a part?

For me, culture is neither a monument nor an archive. It is a living process through which human experience accumulates over time. Like an archaeological cultural layer, it is composed of countless traces of lived life: ideas, mistakes, hopes, works of art, gestures and actions. Some disappear, while others endure, forming the foundation upon which the future is built.

Cultural Layer is a reflection on memory, responsibility and the fragility of the worlds we create. It considers what remains after us and what, despite constant change, continues to connect people across time.