Balance States

2020, white acrylic on wood boards, two mass produced, one curved handmade, 36 x 24 x 20 in; 91,5 x 61 x 50 cm

Balance states emerges from the common custom of painters placing their paintings against the studio wall. I decided to make a stack that imitates this type of storage and presentation for canvases. This piece is monochromatic, consisting of three panels: two mass-produced wooden and one hand-made plywood, whose topmost surface I painted white. The white color repeats and reproduces an existing element of the architecture—the wall. By bending one of the panels, although it remains the same item, I change its function, transforming it into a spatial painting. As the piece retains some aspects of a painting, the work constitutes a redefinition of the notion of painting.