Drift 16, Mixed Media on Canvas, 97 x 125 cm, 2023.

Drift                              

                            explores chance as a slow, accumulative process through which form emerges without overt direction. The paintings are built from numerous individual marks, each placed within a determined structure yet subtly displaced by the limits of hand, attention, and time. While the method is fixed, the outcome remains open, shaped by minor deviations that compound into complex visual fields.

The works draw from phenomena perceived as stabilizing in their slowness, including eroded surfaces, suspended light, gradual flows, and patterns shaped by accumulation. These forms suggest order without design and coherence without a guiding hand. In Drift, painting becomes a site for such emergence, where density and rhythm develop through sustained repetition and bodily continuity rather than deliberate compositional choice.

Chance operates here not as randomness but as sensitivity to process. The size of each mark is determined by the viscosity of paint and the amount carried by the brush. Placement is guided by fine motor imprecision, momentary lapses in concentration, and the gradual modulation of movement over time. What emerges is a field shaped by attention slowly wearing thin, registering the body as a variable rather than a controlling force.

Material repetition produces a meditative tension. The surface holds traces of persistence, hesitation, and fatigue, recording time not as narrative but as accumulation. Order and instability coexist without resolution. The paintings remain suspended between control and release, intention and drift.

Within Siika's broader practice, Drift moves laterally away from works that explicitly engage social, economic, and ideological formations. While those projects trace how belief and behavior are conditioned through shared narratives and structures, Drift turns toward processes that unfold prior to articulation. Order is not argued or asserted, but allowed to accumulate quietly through repetition, slippage, and sustained attention.

0,57 € / cm^2 ( + tax 10 % ).