Glitch Works, 2020-2023

In 2020 I started a work series that reproduced digital visual glitches to highlight dissociative states — click here for my thoughts on this series.

The works are made in oil on canvas or pencil on paper.  It’s an aesthetics that originates in the misinterpretation of digital data — when files are saved corruptly, or their image data gets interpreted incorrectly. This series explores what happens when you apply this visuality to portraiture: after caring for years about compositions featuring many individuals, I wanted to turn my focus onto one individual at a time.

Works of this series were exhibited at the solo show “Salon #1” at Untitled Projects (2021), at Art Karlsruhe (2022) and WIKAM Frühjahrsmesse (2022), and at gallery twenty-six (2022), Forum Kunst Contemporary (2023) and Galerie Heimo Bachlechner (2022) — and they have been essential to my Trauma – solo exhibition at Museum Angerlehner (2021).

Paintings

Double Bind, 2021 | oil on canvas
180 × 150 cm
Butterfly, 2021 | oil on canvas
180 × 200 cm
Fractalophilia, 2021 | oil on canvas
200 × 150 cm
Microscopia, 2021 | oil on canvas
180 × 120 cm
Purpose, 2022 | oil on canvas
160 × 200 cm
"Whenever a child is not loved and valued for the very unique being he or she is,
that child is violated."

"Creating Love", John Bradshaw
Sundowning, 2022 | oil on canvas
180 × 120 cm
Compersion, 2023 | oil on canvas
200 × 120 cm
Law of Regression, 2023 | oil on canvas
180 × 240 cm
"Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
To know love we have to invest time and commitment."

bell hooks
Vertical Sleep, 2020 | oil on canvas
200 × 140 cm
Sub-perceptual Awareness, 2022 | oil on canvas
180 × 150 cm
Exhibition View: Illusion - Delusion, (c) Tim van den Oudenhoven

Three is a wonderful number when considering the passing of time: things begin, progress — and ultimately always end. Within and throughout, life offers space for endless events; myriad stories with shapeless facets.
That’s where trauma originates.

Personal Drawings

"Children not held in the minds of their mothers are lost, forgotten."
"Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma", Sebern F. Fisher
Farah, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Max, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Alex, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Jasmin, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
42 × 29 cm

The endless Yin and Yang mysteries
of not being
you.

Mother, 2020 | pencil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Lilo, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Lilo, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Plant, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Exhibition View "Trauma", Museum Angerlehner, 2021 (by Simon Veres)

Black Lives Matter - Drawings

Karen, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
70 × 100 cm
Philly Elmo, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
70 × 100 cm
Reverse Flag, Fragmented, 2020 | pencil on paper
100 × 70 cm
Exhibition View "Salon #1" at Untitled Projects, 2021
Solo Exhibition by Christian Bazant-Hegemark