Public Artist In White Cube Space, 2023
Monotype, Charcoal on screen
29.7 cm x 42 cm
Continuing the exploration of lines, this series employs layering techniques using various water-soluble charcoal types and thicknesses. The motif revolves around a square, serving as a symbol of confinement. Within this square, the artwork undergoes a dynamic evolution, shifting between states of appearance, disappearance, strength, weakness, and blur.
Drawing from prior experiments on the strength of prints throughout the editions, I sought to experiment with the prints' characteristic of blending into gray tones towards the end. In the final prints, the square is predominantly engulfed in gray, with its borders disintegrating. Metaphorically, this dissolution symbolizes the artist's inherent power to dismantle boundaries of knowledge and social constraints.
The artwork mirrors the struggle of a public artist in a white-cube space versus a white-cube artist placed in a public space. Within the information age, I question: what is public, what is private, and where are the boundaries?
In ‘Public Artist In White Cube Space’, I delve into the complexities of artistic expression within different contexts, highlighting the tensions and contrasts between confinement and liberation, visibility and invisibility, engagement and detachment.