The sand pieces feature a stark economy of colours, broken up by the use of atmospheric dust and a multitude of glass fragments scattered throughout. The painting, conceived as an indivisible whole, now displaces real space to embark on a new journey towards its own autonomy. The phenomenological nature of these works harbours questions related to sight, perception, and touch. The traces of brushes dragging colour across the surface are clearly visible, as are those of fingers scratching the paint, achieving more than just effects, but an atmosphere, a material sensation. With bright, iridescent reflections, the blackish material is arranged on a rough surface full of particles of sand and coloured glasses, leading this new painting to encompass a larger set of operations. And it is not so much sand excavated and extracted from the earth as another, more mysterious kind which, in the artist’s words, floats and falls.
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