House Paintings

My artistic practice explores the female body, memory, identity, and the encounter between tradition and contemporary life. Through images of women, nature, and everyday objects, I examine themes of belonging, femininity, and renewal, and the ways personal and cultural memories shape our relationship with the world around us.

My series of house paintings emerged from this ongoing exploration. I paint houses I encounter in everyday life, while traveling, in distant places, and through films and television series. I am drawn to particular viewpoints and to the quiet presence of buildings that capture my attention. Through painting, I return to these fleeting encounters, translating them into images in which color becomes a personal response to what I have seen.

For me, a house is more than a physical structure. It carries associations of home, family, tradition, and the memories that connect us to the places and people we come from. These associations often reside in everyday details: familiar melodies, scents, flavors, and family rituals that remain with us even as time passes and distances change.

As I paint these houses, I consider how a place acquires meaning beyond its physical appearance. What makes a house feel familiar? Can an image of a place we have never inhabited evoke a sense of belonging? How are our ideas of home shaped by memory, imagination, and the everyday encounters that stay with us?

Through this ongoing series, I explore the relationship between memory, identity, and belonging, and the ways an image of a place can hold both personal and cultural meaning. In my work, the house becomes a meeting point between the familiar and the unfamiliar, between past and present, and between the physical place and the emotional associations it carries.