POIESIS

Poiesis, from the ancient Greek ποιεῖν - “to make.” A word that pulses through language and matter, entwined with poetry, its close kin. In biology, hematopoiesis speaks of the formation of blood cells - life itself in a state of becoming.

In art, poiesis is the act of bringing forth, of making the unseen visible. It is both process and transformation, a continuous unfolding, shaped not just by thought but by the haptic - the felt sense of making, the intimate conversation between hand and material.

A practice rooted in attentiveness to presence, silence, and the poetics of being. Materials - photographic transfers, pigment, thread, paper, fabric - are not tools but thresholds. They hold memory in texture, resistance in weight, invitation in their grain. Every gesture is a contact, each surface a trace of encounter. Between constraint and expression, an unfolding - tactile, relational, felt.

These works do not illustrate. They trace, press, absorb. They are attuned to the slow urgency of touch - to trembles, to trepidations, to the silent feedback loop of material listening back.

IN / EX HIBITION

To inhibit is to hold back, restrain, keep within. To exhibit is to display, reveal, bring into presence. These opposing forces shape the act of showing - between concealment and revelation, intimacy and exposure, withholding and offering.

From the Latin exhibere - to hold out, to present - exhibition is not just a space for art but a gesture, an encounter, a negotiation between what is seen and what remains just beyond sight. It is sustenance, a way of holding space, a way of giving and receiving.