Perfect Strangers

In Perfect Strangers, I explore the beauty of not yet knowing: the fleeting feeling that someone or something is already familiar, while much remains undiscovered. My starting point is my relationship with myself and with other people. I am drawn to the excitement of an encounter before I know someone’s favourite places, tastes, or habits. In this interval, imagination becomes part of the relationship. What I sense, what I know, and what I imagine meet, creating a charged, almost ecstatic feeling of possibility.

This curiosity also turns inward. I encounter aspects of myself that feel familiar but remain difficult to understand. Knowing ourselves and others more deeply has its own beauty, with further layers continually emerging. My focus here is the anticipation that accompanies discovery: the pleasure of sensing a connection while its meaning is still taking shape. I use painting to stay with this passing feeling and give it a visible form.

I bring a cold, concrete-like ground… Read more