The Oracle’s Silence

Here, we encounter a solitary, mythologically charged female figure, rendered in a tactile impasto that makes the subject feel both monumental and fragile. The figure’s elongated stance, earthy palette, and ambiguous gaze lend the work an archetypal resonance — she is timeless, haunting, and introspective.

In The Oracle’s Silence, the focus is onto the mythic figure not as a subject of narrative, but as a vessel of presence. Based on a single photographic image of a model embodying the aura of mythological women, the figure is presented three times — nearly identical, yet subtly shifting — like a prophecy heard through layers of time, half-remembered, half-erased.

The oracle in myth is a paradox: she speaks, yet is not heard; she knows, but is dismissed; she stands still, yet inhabits many realms. She becomes icon and shadow, body and absence, voice and silence. By repeating her image three times, there is a ritual, echo, and the cyclical nature of myth. This is not the portrait of a woman — it is a visitation.

The Oracle’s Silence is a space where knowledge is held, not spoken; where meaning is felt, not explained.