Artworks / Untitled (Infanta II)

'Untitled (Infanta II)' is one in an ongoing series of paintings based on reproductions and online images of flower paintings by Edouard Manet and Fantin-Latour. In these contemporary revisitations, the flowers are imbued with a strange weightlessness and plasticity that contradicts their original naturalism while the background is reduced to an abstract field that is at once space and ground. Conceptual boundaries of materiality and imagery, of history and decoration are constantly pushed, collapsed and suspended, suggesting a gap in abeyance, which projects itself as an expectation of beauty.