VOLCANO

Title: VOLCANO
Year: 2024
Medium: Oil on paper, unframed
Size: 65 x 50 cm, 26 x 20 in
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Provenance: Artist’s Studio, Switzerland
Exhibited: Un soir aux Eaux-Vives, edition 2025
Authentication: This artwork is accompanied by a certificate from the artist, signature on the back

Within this composition, a woman stands at the crossroads of worlds – her gaze anchored to her smartphone, lost in a silent dialogue. Unaware, behind her, a volcano simmers with untamed energy, its imminent eruption, a silent scream in the landscape. Yet she remains untouched, cocooned in a digital reverie, as life’s fiery spectacle unfolds in the periphery of her attention. The painting is a lyric of modern existence – a testament to our devotion to virtual connections, while reality itself trembles and roars for notice. Here, the canvas sings of human detachment, of the ceaseless flood of information that dims the vividness of the present. The world blazes with urgent beauty, but in this poetic moment, the woman drifts elsewhere, her presence only a shadow in the storm of reality.