In my thesis I am going to explore the process of integrating an image, an imaginary landscape, into the physical space of a painting, which is not strictly a two-dimensional plane. I am acknowledging the ongoing questions regarding the practice of painting, its specifics, its materiality and the possibilities of an engagement with its limits. Painting establishes an optical surface, a (non)place, and therefore I connect it with alternative places such as heterotopia and utopia. A material is needed to transfer the image into the painting's physical space, which is why I perceive an image as a liquid structure that acts like it is stepping out of its frames. The frame, from the formal view, works as a supplement to, or in fact complements, the visual work. Through the position that the frame takes, I am exploring the boundaries between inside and outside and, through my work, reflecting their relation.
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