Tales of Taboo, Torture & Habsburger Hypocrisy

100 x 80 cm as minimum size and
200 x 120 cm as maximum size pro canvas
Acryl, Lacquer, Medium and
(Iridescent) Pigments on Canvas.

Tales of Taboo, Torture & Habsburger Hypocrisy (2026) unfolds through a reversal: from the marginal to the central, from the outsider to figures of power. Aristocratic bodies, political elites, and mythologized authorities—traditionally shielded from scrutiny—are reassembled through processes of narrative contamination, historical projection, and painterly distortion. Drawing on both historical and contemporary conspiracy theories, the series constructs a constellation of unstable figures in which identity is continuously reshaped and undone.

The works mark a return to painting after a prolonged engagement with digital techniques and cut-out installations. Processes of layering, fragmentation, and recombination are translated into material operations of lacquer and iridescent pigment. Painting becomes a site of assembly that simultaneously produces disintegration, where images accumulate and dissolve within the same gesture.

By bringing together these figures, the series shifts attention from the construction of marginality to the fabrication of power itself. Conspiracy theories appear as contemporary myth structures, revealing how authority is imagined through projection, concealment, and repetition. Bodies fragment, faces distort, and histories overlap, forming a field in which meaning remains deliberately unstable.

Through this inversion, the works hold up a distorted mirror to dominant structures, where images resist fixation and remain open to interpretation.