Samora Oibel1. Bazarrabusa

My artistic practice is rooted in what I describe as the “visualization of energy.” It explores gesture, intense colors, graffiti-oriented mark-making, and the repeated act of making visible stories that are often overlooked. These elements come together to form a visual language that seeks less to explain than to evoke. My works are not primarily intended to be understood, but to be felt. I consider the physical act of placing lines and traces to be a conceptual gesture — simultaneously a form of expression, resistance, and remembrance. Figures and faces emerge and dissolve within my works, embedded in painterly fields that oscillate between control and surrender. My work is in dialogue with the Neo-Expressionism of the late 20th century, particularly with the immediacy and subjective intensity evident in the work of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. I do not, however, understand these influences as models to be imitated. Rather, I see them as part of a cultural c