‘A written statement or a proclamation of one’s beliefs and aims.’

At the epicentre of an artist’s life is the never-ending need to rewrite one’s artist statement. Any artist can tell you how daunting this job can be. Personally, this has always represented a titanic task, not just because I must explain in sterile vocabulary what comes from a place of heart and vulnerability but also because I must do this in my second language.

With Manifesto, I have attempted to enforce the palimpsest-analogy to this monumental scroll, not just because it contains every single artist statement -draft and final version- that I have written over the years, but also because it examines my personal development and the universal notion of change in art and artistry.