Tijana Titin

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Artist statement

Notions of oneness, entanglement and human experience are central to my work. This unfolds through a process that resembles an excavation, involving the continuous addition and subtraction of paint. Using washes, as well as erasure through different materials and overpainting, this continues until I reach an outcome that resonates with me. It is an intuitive search for something that cannot be named or articulated, but which I am certain exists — an essence of sorts. By peeling away all unnecessary layers in painting, I am able to get closer to the true face of things. This search has developed over the last few years, inspired by different scientific discoveries in quantum physics, neuroscience, cosmology, psychology, as well as spiritual teachings, among others. The 2022 Nobel prize winners in physics, for example, offer us a new understanding from the perspective of quantum mechanics, which takes the universe as a non-local whole. While brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor writes about her experience of having a stroke, sharing insights gained from viewing the world from the right hemisphere of the brain — through which a total unity of existence is perceived. My paintings are an intuitive attempt to depict this universal interconnectedness through my own personal lens, letting known and unknown merge on canvas. There are two major (and opposing) approaches that I take to this: 1) starting with figuration and disassembling it; 2) starting with abstraction and letting...

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