video, 37' 44'', 2015-2016
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Untitled Practice, begun in 2014 and currently consisting of seven volumes, engages with abstraction as an open-ended system—an evolving, self-reflexive methodology rooted in the act of painting. The work foregrounds the tension between what might be called the “body of practice”—a set of internally coherent visual sequences built on a particular modular base—and the everyday conditions of their production. This encounter between structure and environment, between system and situation, becomes a central dynamic of the project.
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Untitled Practice, begun in 2014 and currently consisting of seven volumes, engages with abstraction as an open-ended system—an evolving, self-reflexive methodology rooted in the act of painting. The work foregrounds the tension between what might be called the “body of practice”—a set of internally coherent visual sequences built on a particular modular base—and the everyday conditions of their production. This encounter between structure and environment, between system and situation, becomes a central dynamic of the project.
The third chapter (2015-2016), shaped by the context of New York City, reflects this dynamic most clearly. The third part was the result of my life-changing experience of emigration and coming to the US. The city’s layered temporalities—meeting new friends, moving to new places around town, its nightlife, work cycles, and labor, as well as its dense sensory field—intervene in the work’s logic, creating a friction that is neither purely conceptual nor autobiographical, but lived. The paintings respond not with fixed resolution but with a kind of provisionality—a term used in contemporary painting discourse to describe works that appear contingent, incomplete, or deliberately unresolved. In contrast to the heroic or totalizing ambitions of historical abstraction, Untitled Practice embraces abstraction as fragile, iterative, and contingent on its context. Additionally, this part of UP is a deeply personal story of displacement, aesthetics, alienation, and contemplating exile and belonging, as one searches for a community, both in art and labor.