Rosa Aeterna
2026
Suspended between botanical observation and painterly abstraction, this series of large-scale works reconfigures the rose as a field of light, memory, and ornament. Drawing on a lineage that extends from the vanitas still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age to the floral radicalism of Redon, Matisse, and Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as the chromatic dissolutions of Monet, the work does not cite these histories directly so much as absorb them into a contemporary pictorial condition.
Historically charged with associations of beauty, devotion, and mortality, the rose is here re-articulated as a spatial and temporal construct rather than a fixed motif. Petal-like forms unfold as layered topographies, suggesting both organic structure and constructed image, and situating the viewer within a field that oscillates between proximity and scale, intimacy and distance.
Across the works, material restraint and reflective variation operate as structuring devices, producing shifts in perception that depend on movement, light, and viewpoint. The image does not resolve into a stable reading, but remains contingent on the conditions of its encounter. In this sense, the series reframes the floral motif as a contemporary pictorial system in continuous formation - one in which the rose persists not as depiction, but as an evolving field of relations between surface, time, and perception.