Precious Moments.
Painted Portraits from Instant Photographs
Precious Moments transforms personal instant photographs into painted portraits, exploring the connections between memory, experience, and human relationships.
The project investigates how everyday, spontaneous images can serve as inspiration, reference, and conceptual material in painting, revealing the hidden value in fleeting moments and personal experiences.
June 22nd. Land covered with pebbles, 50x61cm, oil on canvas, 2024
The wind, 38x61cm, oil on canvas, 2024
This project is based not only on photographs used to create the portraits, but also on the idea of capturing the fluidity of a fleeting moment. It explores how seemingly insignificant images we take daily on our phones can be given greater meaning and a more substantial role.
There can be countless such moments stored in our archives. We do not know their real number, we rarely review them, and we often do not remember them.
50x61cm, oil on canvas, 2024
On one hand, this is not entirely good since they take up space and resources. Because of this, the simple practice of reviewing and selecting photo archives transformed into the idea for this project.
38x61cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Why not choose a series of instant photographs even if a face is not captured in the frame and fix that moment for ourselves?
50x61cm, oil on canvas, 2024
A painted portrait becomes the central element, while everything surrounding it forms its official archive. The data has already been collected not even by you, but by the technology you constantly carry with you. It may sound uncomfortable: your phone knows your location and the exact time the photograph was taken. Yes, perhaps. But this is the information that the painting ultimately carries.
Series by the sea, 38x61cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Let it become part of its technical archive, just like its creation date, dimensions, and medium. Each painting is accompanied by a photograph and a description of the place where the moment occurred and the depicted person was present.
50x61cm, oil on canvas, 2024
This photograph and its description are only a trace we have left behind. It’s an evocation of a memory we chose and assigned new properties within the framework of the project.
