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Close your eyes and imagine that talent has a form. What does it look like, is it solid or fragile, familiar or impossible to name?
This is the starting point of "Trying to Find the One Who Has Stolen My Talent", a series that began in 2024 with 46 small portraits and grew into larger canvases. Each work starts from a sketch and evolves into an abstract-figurative image, where faces are never fully resolved but left open for the viewer’s imagination.
COMING SOON
Afterimage
opening 27 November, HOFA London
​Every artist eventually reaches a moment of collision, between what once was seen and what continues to appear long after the image fades.
This exhibition exists precisely in that lingering space, the afterimage of years of searching, painting, and becoming.
Trying to Find the One Who Has Stolen My Talent was born out of doubt, an intimate investigation into what it means to lose and recover one’s creative essence. The Observer series, on the other hand, stands as its counterpoint: a declaration of identity, a visual language refined through six years of relentless experimentation.
Bringing these two universes together is not a return, but a recognition. The Observer is the same one who once searched for the thief of his talent, now aware that talent was never stolen, only transformed through time, discipline, and vision.
Each work becomes both echo and presence. The small portraits form a collective whisper, traces of uncertainty, while the larger Observers rise as pillars of clarity and control. Together, they capture what remains after the image disappears, the persistence of form, memory, and mastery.
Afterimage marks not an ending, but a passage, the moment where introspection becomes light, and light becomes permanence.
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