19.04.2026 - 10.05.2026

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solo exhibition at Loods 12

This series started with a specific observation of the visual language on the back of trucks.

Unlike the sides, which merely show the company’s name and logo, the rear doors present a more closed, often strictly geometric or abstract visual language.
Large letters, logos, and geometric shapes create a unique graphic style. Photographing these images while traveling was the direct inspiration for Cargo Canvas.

Looking for a material to translate this observation led me to the source itself: the truck tarpaulin. Using this discarded industrial material wasn’t just an aesthetic choice, but a conceptual one. The tarpaulin carries the physical history of its past life; it’s a surface with memory. By working with tarps that have lost their original function, the work raises the question whether art must always start from something new, or can be found in what already exists.

In the studio, this process becomes ‘painting without paint’. Composition happens through reduction and re-assembly rather than adding layers. Cutting, mounting and folding the tarpaulin follows a logic similar to placing a brushstroke, but with its own material reality. The hardware such as grommets, straps and seams, were not hidden but became part of the work.

The weight of the material, the tension and gravity are all active parts of the creation process. The resulting works are assembled objects that sit between painting and sculpture. They transform the moving, functional visual language of the road into a monumental, still form.

Cargo Canvas invites the visitor to follow this transformation and to look differently at everyday industrial objects. It encourages to reconsider the things we encounter in

daily life or meet along our road.

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