Due per uno, 2023

A photographic reproduction of the sky lies on a square piece of card stock whose diagonals are outlined in pencil. On top of that are two copies of the same painted plaster statuette, portraying a painter making a painting. The two figures, facing each other, are separated by four small plexiglas sheets, placed upright and staggered in relation to each other. All around are eight photographic elements reproducing combinations of colours – some of them, white ones, are viewed from the verso – and four other plexiglas sheets, also square and equal in size; one of the images is inserted so that it is tilted between the plexiglas sheets at the centre of the composition.
The scattered elements evoke the pieces of a mosaic as it is being assembled, the indistinct colours recall the painter's palette, the figure of the painter shows himself at work: everything alludes to the making of a work, to the condition of a project in which nothing is definite and everything is in the making. Two painters for one painting, as the title suggests, or one painter who is reflected in his own image; two specular figures who compete for the same challenge: the quest for a painting, which is announced by clues and traces, but without manifesting itself. A painting that appears and disappears against the background of an ineffable and incommensurable dimension, represented by the image of the sky, understood to be an absolute and ideal space. A space amplified by the diagonals traced on white card stock, as the vanishing lines of an imaginary perspective that potentially inscribes any other image, whether past or future.