‘Foundations of Fracture’, Oil on linen, 115cm x 140cm, 2026
Drawing from the myth of Romulus and Remus, Foundations of Fracture revisits a foundational narrative of Western civilization through a lens of ambiguity and instability. Unlike the traditional story, where the nurturing she-wolf and the children occupy distinct roles, this work dissolves such boundaries, merging beast and child into an inseparable form. The image suggests that contradiction, care, violence, and dependency were intertwined from the very beginning, challenging the notion of a pure or stable origin. In doing so, the painting becomes a reflection on the contemporary condition, where distinctions between protector and aggressor, truth and fabrication, have grown increasingly uncertain. Rather than presenting fracture as a recent phenomenon, Foundations of Fracture proposes that instability has always been embedded within the foundations upon which societies are built, inviting viewers to consider fragmentation not as the failure of order, but as one of its original conditions.
