Existential Angst - 2023
Acrylic, marker, chalk and charcoal on canvas
70 x 50 cm
Installation view photo: Alma Ben-David
Painted after watching a documentary of George Condo and after attending a course about Vanitas. This painting frustrated me quite a lot before being finished. I aimed to create a versatile use of acrylic paint - watercolour see-through qualities in blue vase, wax qualities in the candles, precise delicate in the candlestick and all-out oversaturated on the character. This work is about anxiety and waiting, being in the moment. The candles are out, with digital advertisement like icons. The roses are still alive but with borrowed time as they have been picked- they are the same colour as the character for these reasons and also resemble his eyes. The bottom of the painting is a black ledge/ line, like an unknown abyss beneath but also as a hommage to the Trompe-l'œil common in the Vanitas traditional painting.
In the second photo (Intallation view) the work is hanging mid-air with two cords, in limbo, between life and death.
In the second photo (Intallation view) the work is hanging mid-air with two cords, in limbo, between life and death.