BEHIND THE DOOR
Mixed media on shaped panel
Variable dimensions
This work arises from a question that seems simple, but isn’t: what happens to the space we leave behind when we close the door to our home?
Behind the door, the moment it shuts, what was once a lived-in space begins to transform. It becomes a silent absence. Objects remain, but are no longer seen. Rooms persist, but as if they withdraw into themselves, distant from the gaze.
The work doesn’t aim to represent a domestic interior, but to evoke emptied space—the moment in which presence gives way to memory. It is the abandoned place that begins to speak, not through things, but through the atmosphere that gathers within it.
This is not nostalgia, but a reflection on suspended time, on emptiness as an active space, which holds traces and resonance.
Panofsky wrote that every representation of space is also a mental construction. In this sense, the shaped panels are not merely surfaces to paint on, but attempts to give form to an inner space—perceived, embodied, sedimented in memory.
Each painting is a threshold, a fragment that seeks to hold onto what usually escapes: the instant a place stops being inhabited, yet doesn’t cease to exist.
There, in the distance between the gaze and what has been left behind, another presence takes shape. Silent. Invisible. Persistent.
