City Breath

A series of paintings in which, using minimal means and extreme simplification, I try to capture the relationship between light, matter, and urban space. The nearly monochromatic works hover on the edge of abstraction, portraying the city as a system of contrasts - heavy, dark masses and white fields of light.

Dark areas build the material fabric of the world, while white becomes light, but also emptiness - the space between forms. It is precisely this “emptiness,” the titular breath, that allows matter to exist, gain rhythm, and acquire meaning. Without it, the painting would be nothing more than a solid mass.