05/08/2026
Twisted Realities : The Sculptural Paintings 2026
This body of work reimagines the classical painting as a spatial object, transforming the familiar framed image into a sculptural form that twists, folds, and loops through space. Rooted in the visual language of Renaissance paintings, each piece presents richly composed scenes on both sides of a continuous surface, evoking tradition while simultaneously destabilising it.
The ornate gilded frame—once a boundary defining perspective—is distorted into a Möbius-like
structure, dissolving distinctions between front and back, interior and exterior. The painting becomes an infinite double sided surface: a continuous loop where dual images coexist, reflect, and interfere. At its core, the work explores duality—two sides of a reality that are inseparable yet often contradictory. These paired compositions suggest parallel worlds and shifting truths, echoing contemporary anxieties around artificial imagery, deepfakes, and the instability of perception.
What appears authentic may be constructed; what seems singular may in fact be multiple.
Geometrically, the sculptures disrupt Euclidean space through continuous torsion and spatial paradox. The surface behaves like a time warp, folding imagery across itself and collapsing linear perspective. Renaissance iconography merges with subtle traces of contemporary technology, creating a dialogue between past representation and speculative futures.
Developed through algorithmic design and digital 3D modelling, each piece originates from a single
continuous surface. It is then translated into a precise assembly of digitally printed components meticulously constructed by hand in a process akin to a complex three-dimensional puzzle. Suspended between image and object, past and future, truth and fabrication, these sculptural paintings invite the viewer to question not only what they see, but how reality itself is constructed.
