Obsessive-Compulsive

Coloured pencil and ink pen on paper

60 × 40 cm / 23.6 × 15.7 in, 2019

Available — €900

With this work, I wanted to represent the need for order as an attempt to control what cannot be controlled. That is why I built a face made of pieces arranged in a way that suggests identity itself is made of order.

The composition appears regular, symmetrical and controlled, but only on the surface. Behind the ordered structure, there remains the sense that something could still escape the attempt to control one’s own world.

Here, the puzzle also represents the constant need to intervene in reality in order to make it more tolerable. Some pieces are deliberately missing, so that the viewer experiences a subtle discomfort and an almost physical urge to add what is absent.