Asnath, Is it yours or mine? 2024–2025
This series draws from the overlooked figure of Asnath, the Egyptian wife of Joseph, depicted as a silent bystander in Rembrandt’s Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (1656). By reimagining her gaze through a current lens, the work engages with themes of identity, migration, cultural hybridity, and the role of women across time.
Snapshots from personal archives are interwoven with AI-generated images of ambiguous domestic objects—such as bowls, food, and laundry—suggesting an uncanny tension between memory and fabrication. These fragmented elements are dismantled and recomposed, creating visual voids that extend into the physical structure of the work through shaped canvases. Material textures, layered brushstrokes, and unpainted spaces highlight the painting’s potential as both a tactile surface and a conceptual field.
1) Tabletop Pleasures, oil, lacquer on shaped canvases, 61 × 83 cm, 2025
2) On the dining table & desk,
oil, lacquer, sand, glitter glue, pistachio shell on shaped canvases,
82 × 110 cm, 2024
3) Indoor scenery,
oil on shaped canvases, 89 × 111 cm, 2025
4) Indoor scenery, oil, lacquer, stickers on shaped canvases,
71.5 × 107 cm, 2024
5)
A lecture from Korea,
oil, acrylic, lacquer, stickers, glitter glue on shaped canvases,
100 × 96 cm, 2024
6) Human knockoffs of virtual/real life and G.O.A.T Tteokbokki,
oil, lacquer on shaped canvases,
139 × 113 cm, 2024
7)
Sashimi rice that I ate after watching the Düsseldorf Rundgang,
oil, lacquer, glitter glue on shaped canvases,
135 × 105 cm, 2024