The Model is not present

In The Model is not Present, the absence of the human figure becomes the central subject. The paintings feature a single chair — once used for posing a model — now adrift in a surreal, psychologically charged space. Rendered with thick brushstrokes and skewed perspectives, the chair hovers between object and symbol: a trace of someone who was expected, who once sat, or who may never arrive.

This series is an exploration of the tension between presence and vacancy. The chair is familiar — functional, even domestic — yet it appears unstable, levitating, shadowed, duplicated. Light fractures across surfaces, casting disjointed reflections, blurring distinctions between interior and exterior, between floor and sky. Time, too, feels disrupted.

With no body to anchor the scene, the viewer is left to imagine: Who was meant to be here? What remains when the subject is withdrawn? The title The Model is not Present references a literal moment — the absence of a model in a studio — but also gestures toward broader ideas: memory, performance, refusal, loss.

These paintings ask us to confront the void left behind. They are invitations not to look at a person, but to look around them — to consider the space they shape by not being there.