STATEMENT

In “The next winter”, I confront one of the most visceral and least expressed fears: the possibility of being forgotten, excluded, absorbed by collective indifference. The work depicts a series of collapsed bodies — indistinct homeless figures blending into the urban landscape. These bodies do not occupy space: they become it.

In this piece, I reflect on identity, mental health, and the importance of social status as an anchor of visibility and human recognition.

Painting becomes the means through which I narrate the progressive dehumanization of those who fall to the margins, reduced to visual clutter, to background noise of modernity. But there is also something more subtle and intimate: an autobiographical fear, a projection of myself into that invisibility, into that extreme solitude. It’s a work that combines denunciation and confession, speaking of psychological distress as a consequence of marginalization and the constant pressure to adapt.

“The next winter” investigates the fear of being forgotten — and the ultimate terror of those who have already been forgotten.