The function of a publication like an encyclopedia—intended to catalog and preserve knowledge across artistic, historical, political, and scientific domains—can be understood as a kind of perpetual exhibition, a site of continuous reference and display. It is within this framework, and the desire to engage with such an ongoing archive, that this series of paintings was conceived. By working directly on selected images sourced from the pages of an encyclopedia, the project try to inserts itself into this repository of collective knowledge, not to overwrite it, but to inhabit it with new layers of meaning.

The intervention consists of applying dense, black pigment onto the printed images, introducing a rich materiality that alters and reconfigures the original visual narratives. This gesture creates a tension between presence and erasure, between what is revealed and what is obscured. In doing so, the work opens a space for both real and fictional historical dialogues to emerge within each altered scene. The result is a hybrid terrain—part documentation, part invention—where the authority of the archive is subtly challenged by the subjective nature of artistic memory and reinterpretation.