In Ad vitam Aeternam, human and animal forms merge in scenes that are both familiar and uncanny. Drawing from footage of wildlife, these mixed-media illustrations and sculptures imagine a world in which the boundary between the human and the animal is not erased, but inverted and hybridized. Humans appear within natural settings not as intruders, but as echoes of the animals they mirror, bearing markings and gestures.
The work explores the deep continuity between species, proposing an eternal loop of mutual embodiment. The series is pushing the viewer to confront the animal within the human, treating the animal not as other, but as a mirrored double. This mirroring acts as both defense and desire, a yearning for return to a pre-verbal, instinctive state of wholeness and vitality. The transformation of human figures reflects an archetypal journey of dissolving ego boundaries in pursuit of symbolic immortality.
The cartoonish style of illustration serves as a softening mechanism, allowing entry into complex emotional terrain without resistance, inviting a multilayered reading of innocence, disguise, and metamorphosis.
"Cycle of Life"
Papermache, 2016
26*38cm
Ad Vitam Aeternam,
For Eternal Life
|2017|
"Midnight swim"
Acrylic on cardboard, 2016
27*40cm
"Snorkeling"
Acrylic on cardboard, 2016
17*12cm
"Slumberland"
Acrylic on cardboard, 2016
14*17cm
"Water truce"
Acrylic on cardboard, 2017
20*29cm
"Flock of faces"
Marker on paper, 2015
21*13cm
"Crocod-isle"
Marker on paper, 2015
18*12cm
"Untitled"
Marker on paper, 2015
21*13cm
"Untitled"
Watercolor and marker on paper, 2016
29*20cm
"Shadow"
Oil painting,epoxy on resin 2015
21*13cm
"Fishing the gap"
Papermache on plexiglass, 2016
30*21cm
"Roar 1/4"
oil painting on resin, 2016
15*10cm
"Roar 2/4"
Oil painting on resin, 2016
16*11cm
"Roar 3/4"
Oil painting on resin, casted human teeth, 2016
14*11cm
"Roar 4/4"
Oil painting on resin, 2016
12*11cm
"Making a scene"
Acrilyc on canvas, 2015
80*80cm- 40*80cm x2
"Hybrid"
Papermache, 2016
60*50cm
