In the conventional sense, a city has boundaries, just like a nation-state: a line beyond which order, jurisdiction, and authority cease. A city claims jurisdiction over a specific plot of land, but the global city is a territory outside of control and ownership. As the subject of study slips away, everything beyond the border—or everything that lacks one—becomes significant.
In the age of globalization, traditional notions of centers and peripheries are disappearing—access to the sky remains equal.
«Under the Clouds 1, ” 150×165 cm, canvas, acrylic, 2026
«As long as I can see this, ” I thought, „the cloudless sky and the sunlight—I dare not be sad.“
Anne Frank [„The Diary of Anne Frank“]
«Under the Clouds 2, ” 150×165 cm, canvas, acrylic, 2026
From this perspective, the sky serves as a metaphor for an alternative city—one that cannot belong to anyone. «Access to the sky» is a rethinking of the very notion of urban belonging and of how existence can occur outside boundaries.
Exhibition Option
«I cannot tolerate walls or enclosures. The sky that encompasses the entire earth… that is the ideal.» Mahatma Gandhi [«My Life»]
New works are an extension of the POV: SENSITIVE series; the sky here is both a reflection of an internal state and a reflection of what is happening in the city—an emotional and mental cross-section. Clouds and cumulus, which are always mobile, ambiguous, and unbound by architectural or social boundaries, become expressors of dynamics.
«Access to the Sky» series, 100×100×30 cm, canvas, acrylic (in progress)
«Access to the Sky» Series, 100×100×30 cm, canvas, acrylic (in progress)
Excerpt from the series «Access to the Sky, ” 100×100×30 cm, canvas, acrylic (in progress)
Work excerpt from the series «Access to the Sky, ” 100×100×30 cm, canvas, acrylic (in progress)
The works present abstract imagery of the sky and expressively rendered clouds above the faintly outlined silhouette of a city.
The exhibition project includes:
Diptych: two oil canvases measuring 150×165cm—100% complete;
A series of four canvases on spherical (three-dimensional) surfaces measuring 100×100×30cm—in progress.