The body and identity have become inseparable themes both in science and in art. The focus of my painting series is precisely on the human body, and on how the time we live in shapes and deconstructs it.

The development of technology is an essential part of this process of disembodiment. Social networks, video games, and mobile phones all require us to create new identities and to choose avatars that will represent us in that other, virtual life. Virtual life allows people to exist within different windows and contexts simultaneously, as if our mind were detached from the body and existed across multiple spheres.

The motif of abandoning the physical body is a key element of virtual identity. The body has become a temporary shell, perceived as a mechanism whose bodily functions are algorithmic procedures. The mind governs the body and is therefore not limited by it. Cyberspace appears as the ideal medium where this separation can take place. We might even call it the realm of the mind.