Andres Ciccone

Lives and works in Paris, France

Artist statement

Artist Statement My practice explores the unstable relationship between place, memory, displacement, and belonging. I am interested in the moments when the structures that organize our lives—architecture, borders, institutions, domestic spaces, and systems of power—begin to fracture. Through abstraction, I investigate how these external structures can shape our internal experience of stability, identity, and memory. Working primarily with ink, paper, painting, drawing, and constructed forms, I translate experiences of fragmentation and displacement into physical compositions. Geometry provides a fundamental language within my practice: a way of examining order and its failure. Grids, lines, planes, and repeated structures suggest systems of control, while interruptions, collisions, cuts, and shifting forms introduce instability and uncertainty. Architecture plays an increasingly central role in my work. I am drawn to corners, thresholds, intersections, and transitional spaces because they exist between one state and another. A corner can be both a point of stability and a place of rupture. By extending geometric structures into physical space and intervening in the relationship between the work and its surroundings, I question the traditional limits of painting and allow architecture itself to become part of the composition. My work is shaped by an experience of moving between places and cultures. Rather than representing migration literally, I approach displacement as a...

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