Meeting Point, Painting Installation, 2019

The Meeting Point painting installation invites the audience to interpret works perceptually. The content of the works is related to phenomenological ideas of exploring increasingly fundamental levels of experience. The decision to forego the development of the surface reduces painting to an energy field of colour, impinging upon the senses. The point of departure for the creation of the works was an interest in the dualistic nature of the yellow colour: its internal tensions, balancing between vitality and melancholy. The intense, charged nature of the colour is associated with the appearance of a “side effect” of sorts (represented by the black colour). Each element of the installation is first and foremost a kind of presence. The effect of the diptych, which is the central piece of the installation, is to suspend the viewer’s sense of sight in the space ‘between’ – due to the lack of any composition – which in turn leads to a meditative state. The two paintings constitute each other in the process of mutual inversion: subtle tonal differences define their own identities via the negative.