This work is part of an ongoing cycle exploring ambivalent states of contemporary existence.
Title: Absorption
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2025
Format: Portrait format (24 × 36 inches)
Colour Space: Deep blue combined with bold primary colours such as red, yellow, and black, creating a tense, almost digital atmosphere that underscores the virtual nature of the theme
Stylistic Classification: The work moves between abstract figuration and contemporary symbolic language, with echoes of Joan Miró’s poetic abstraction and the clear formal vocabulary of modern digital visual worlds
„Absorption“ depicts an abstracted human figure set within a deep blue space. Lines, signs, and an oversized eye fragment the body, rendering it both present and detached.
Absorption as Expansion
In an affirmative reading, absorption appears as openness to expanded experience. Permeability signifies connection, focus, and increased attention, with digital structures extending perception and presence.
Absorption as Alienation
From a critical perspective, the work reflects withdrawal from immediate reality. Attention narrows, while the surrounding world recedes. The human remains physically present, yet mentally absorbed.
Conclusion
Absorption keeps the tension between expansion and alienation open. The work follows the principle of the integrity of ambivalence