After the Icon: Soft Systems
Solo Exhibition Proposal
Working across painting and textile-based practices, the project explores how images that circulate in everyday life—commercial, cultural, or symbolic—are displaced from their original context and reconfigured as physical forms.
Through processes of translation, repetition, and material manipulation, the works shift from representation to presence. Logos, signs, and familiar visual codes are no longer simply depicted, but reconstructed as surfaces, textures, and objects that oscillate between recognition and distortion.
The coexistence of painted imagery and soft, tactile materials introduces a tension between visual clarity and material ambiguity. What appears immediate and legible becomes unstable when translated into different supports, scales, and textures.
Rather than presenting isolated works, the proposal is conceived as a cohesive environment in which each piece contributes to a broader system of visual and material relationships.
The project is designed as a compact, concept-driven presentation, adaptable to fair formats and alternative exhibition contexts.
Presentation Format
The presentation consists of 6 to 8 works combining painted surfaces and textile-based pieces.
The booth is conceived as a controlled spatial environment, where repetition, contrast, and material variation structure a unified visual experience.
The project does not reproduce icons, but displaces them into material systems where meaning is unstable and continuously renegotiated.
