Sphinx (2022-)

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Her

2023
acrylic, spray paint, marker, crayon, oil pastel on canvas
250 x 230 cm x 2
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The work is inspired by Scylla, the six-headed sea monster from the Odyssey, who hides in her lair and snatches men from passing ships. In later mythology, she is portrayed as a beautiful nereid who is turned into a monster by a jealous goddess, after Poseidon fell in love with her: Scylla’s genitals and lower body become a mass of mad dogs. In this diptych, the idea of the twisting, swirling man-eater amid the waves is combined with a gigantic ship screw from a modern-day industrial shipyard, which looked like a monumental sculpture with metallic ripples and iridescent scales.

The title refers not only to the female demon, but to the movie ‘Her’ where a bodiless AI voice becomes a real woman in the heart of the male protagonist. The painting turns this immaterial female identity (who is fixated on human interests and only exists through language communication) into its opposite: An overwhelming material being that only exists through physical actions, without any connection to its human prey, like a natural predator.

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Sphinx I

2023
acrylic, enamel, marker, crayon, oil pastel on canvas
200 x 160 cm x 2

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Sphinx II

2023
acrylic, spray paint, marker, crayon, oil pastel on canvas
200 x 160 cm x 2

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Sphinx (9)

2023
acrylic, marker, crayon, oil pastel on canvas
220 x 200 cm

 

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Sphinx (8)

2023
acrylic, marker, crayon, oil pastel on canvas
220 x 200 cm

 

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Sphinx (7)

2023
acrylic, marker, oil pastel on canvas
220 x 200 cm

 

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Opening

2023
acrylic and marker on canvas
50 x 50 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Red Grass

2023
acrylic, spray paint, marker, oil pastel on canvas
85 x 70 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Moon

2023
acrylic, marker, ink, oil pastel on canvas
80 x 74 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Tail

2023
acrylic, marker, oil pastel on canvas
60 x 90 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Mermaid

2023
acrylic, marker, colored pencil, oil pastel on canvas
60 x 80 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Shell (1)

2023
acrylic, spray paint, marker, oil crayon on canvas
90 x 74 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Shell (2)

2023
acrylic, marker, colored pencil, oil crayon on canvas
60 x 80 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Sphinx (6)

2023
acrylic, marker, oil pastel on canvas
220 x 200 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2023

Wing

2023
acrylic, marker, crayon on canvas
80 x 90 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2022

Sphinx (5)

2022
acrylic, marker, oil pastel on canvas
220 x 200 cm

 

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2022

Sphinx (4)

2022
acrylic, marker, oil pastel on canvas
220 x 200 cm

 

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2022

Hydra

2022-23
acrylic, marker, spray paint, colored pencil, oil pastel on canvas
200 x 160 cm x 3

installation view with stereogram wallpaper
Painting Unsettled, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, 2023

 

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2022

Little Hydra

2022
acrylic and marker on canvas
70 x 90 cm

installation view with stereogram wallpaper
Painting Unsettled, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, 2023

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2022

Sphinx (3)

2022
acrylic, spray paint, marker, oil pastel on canvas
220 x 200 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2022

Sphinx (2)

2022
acrylic, spray paint, marker, oil pastel on canvas
220 x 200 cm

PAINTINGSphinx (2022-)

2022

Harpy

2022
acrylic, spray paint, marker, oil pastel on canvas
120 x 200 cm