During the period of summer show work, I visited the exhibition Noah Davis at the Barbican Art Gallery. I was deeply impressed by Davis’s dreamlike narratives and the ambiguous spatial structures in his works. Starting from figurative scenes, he created a sense of abstraction within the layers of paint, generating a visual oscillation between clarity and obscurity.

 

What fascinated me most was this atmosphere of in-betweenness—neither entirely clear nor completely blurred. Rather than representing reality directly, Davis seemed to construct what I would call a defocused memory through paint, allowing viewers to actively search for meaning within an uncertain space.

 

This approach inspired me to experiment with soft pastel dust in my own practice, attempting to make the colours of the image more diffuse. By softening the boundaries of forms, I aim to emphasise the fluidity and incompleteness of memory.