Please Take Nothing But Memory centres on a pigment migration technique, in which layers of varnish, dirt, and superficial pigment are chemically lifted from antique oil paintings and transferred onto textile. Developed in collaboration with restoration experts through a partnership with NICAS (The Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science), this process yields faint imprints that are then mounted within various antique objects sourced from local auction houses — selected for the way they circulate within the auction house’s value system as seemingly discarded fragments of the past.
Portrait Of A Young Boy With A White Frill; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, stretched in late 19th century fire screen, Louis XV-style, carved from oak wood; 108 x 58 x 32