Replication, exhaustion, and creation: The Inhabitant and the Guest is a series of self-portraits; paintings, sculptures, and drawings – captured in moments of transition. Suspended in movement, the figures seem to hesitate, uncertain whether they are forming or falling apart. Some are obsessively working on their own image, while others bear the marks of exhaustion, overwhelmed by repetition. Their gestures balance between determination and surrender, and their presence suggests a tension between being and becoming. Each figure seems to play a different role – creator, model, observer, trapped in the cycle of endless transformation.

The diversity of techniques and materials highlights the layered nature of these representations. Painted surfaces blend with drawn lines, while the structure of the sculptures merges the solidity of concrete, the flexibility of plastic, and the warmth of wood, creating a contrast between rawness and delicacy. The very materials the figures are made from seem as mutable as the figures themselves. The space they inhabit is ambiguous, fluid, as if not fully defined. Often, it appears that the figures are both a part of this space and outside of it, reinforcing the sense that they are still balancing between the roles of inhabitant and guest, participant and observer.

In a world that relentlessly demands self-presentation, where the image of oneself is constantly curated, corrected, and replaced, these figures reveal the weight of this cycle. The Inhabitant and the Guest pauses in the spaces between identity and illusion, asking what remains when the process of creation comes to an end.