expository graphic story

                                             A Dive into Silence

                              The Interval Between Painting and Tale

Anuk immerses the viewer in an innovative concept: the expositional graphic tale, a language that explores the interaction between visual arts, literature, and cinema. This process, in which the boundaries between different forms of media become more fluid, results in paintings that do not illustrate the tales, but rather engage in an intrinsic dialogue with them. The artist eschews predictable conclusions provided by the plot, choosing instead to interweave the narrative causality of the tale with the poetic expression of painting, skillfully navigating between the visual and the verbal.

Anuk integrates storytelling into painting in her compositions, also exploring images from cinema to re-edit them in a new plastic and meaningful context. Her creative process intertwines literary creation with the visual expression of the plastic arts. By uniting different domains, her work navigates the spaces between languages. From tale to painting, the artist seeks a dive into silence - a theme she has been investigating for two decades and which has been central in her academic work, both in philosophy and literature. In Anuk's works, the senses of images and words transition between the said and the unsaid, between presence and absence, and exude this silence, which should not be understood as the absence of words, but rather as a manifestation of polysemy, non-duality, and ineffable understanding.

The expositional graphic tale "WRONG HISTORY" brings to light our eternal struggle with certainties. How do we reconcile our intuitions with the narratives that surround us, often anchored in the supposed logical reasoning of facts? In the quest for stability and security, we often resort, without realizing, to cognitive dissonances and fallacies. We end up failing to see much of what is before us, as we select from reality only what we expect to see. Often, we also ignore that unpredictability and imprecision are inherent aspects of the human condition. Our most elaborate plans and noblest intentions can be subverted in an instant, challenging us to accept that life is a delicate balance between control and surrender. Although we cannot control all variables, we can choose how to react to the unexpected.

If the unfathomable mysteries of life cannot be solved, accepting the possibility of error implies embracing our own limitation and recognizing the greatness of the unknown. After all, if we are destined to never be certain, why not turn our best inquiries into our guide back to silence?