PROJECT STATEMENT

Is it worth living in a lie, when the promises on which we built our identity turn out to be illusions? When the constant pursuit of balance, inner success, and peace reveals itself as an act of self-manipulation, meant to give meaning to an otherwise chaotic, empty, incomprehensible reality?

“Promesse” is an expanding project, currently articulated in a cycle of eight oil and charcoal works on canvas, that explores failure as an existential condition and reflects on the meaning — and the loss of meaning — in living. Through a raw and emotional pictorial language, I perform an act of self-analysis, laying bare my deepest vulnerabilities, which become a mirror of collective and universal unease.

The project addresses, without rhetoric, themes of personal failure, fractured identity, self-sabotage, and dissolution within social roles. It explores the margins of disillusionment and the cracks in societal constructs that promise well-being in exchange for adaptation and silence. The works expose a radical vulnerability, in contrast to the brutality of the external world, questioning the idea of personal progress as salvation, to instead narrate an inner cycle of struggle, disillusionment, and acceptance.

There is no comfort: “Promesse” offers no escape routes, only a lucid and conscious surrender.

In a time that rewards appearance and efficiency, “Promesse” proposes a poetics of doubt, of wounding, and of breakdown as a form of honesty and perhaps inner resistance.

The only promise kept, then, is that of doubt.