Second Skin

Natural earth on unstretched canvas, 70 × 120 × 20 cm​

2026

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The project explores the rethinking of the notion of “home” in the context of migration and the search for a new sense of belonging. At the center of the work is the image of a “second skin” as an intermediate layer between the body, memory, and landscape.

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Soil and natural materials are approached here as mediums of memory: they register physical traces of presence, pressure, humidity, and prolonged contact. The work brings together a textile base, local natural material, and spatial suspension, forming an object that exists on the threshold between painting, wearable form, and installation.

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The theme of slowing down unfolds through attention to the states of matter: earth settles into the fabric, the surface holds the trace of action, and the suspended form preserves the sensation of a removed or shed layer. The project proposes an understanding of time not as a sequence of events, but as an accumulation of traces in material, body, and place.