Web & Wall 2019

Web and Wall explores the tension between physical and virtual architectures, examining how barriers, whether material or digital, shape perception, power, and belonging. Three large paintings depict wall-like prototypes that dominate the landscape, yet leave slivers of visibility. And companion works of travel destinations extracted from google, suggesting the possibility, and limits of virtual movement.

The series draws from Thomas Friedman’s distinction between “Wall People” and “Web People”, two opposing but entangled ideologies: one tethered to political boundaries, the other seeking borderlessness through digital networks. Yet both, the project suggests, reflect a shared crisis of representation, where neither territorial sovereignty nor virtual freedom resolves the fractures of the present.

Web and Wall treats the canvas not as image but a site where opacity and visual interference unsettle stable positions. The work asks: can anything exist without restriction? What architectures might we imagine in response to the accelerations of technology, globalization, displacement, and climate crisis that continue to redraw the world we inhabit?