Pickpocket explores a shift in the artist’s practice both visually and conceptually by questioning what painting is and how it functions. Built through layered acrylic on canvas, the works focus on transformation, where images emerge, fade, and disappear beneath successive layers.

The series examines memory, perception, and the instability of visual experience. It reflects the dynamics of public space simultaneously, a site of interaction and loss, where moments and meanings can easily vanish. Through techniques of layering, removal, and reuse of visual fragments, the artist addresses themes of ephemerality, appropriation, and alienation.

The title Pickpocket suggests a fictional figure that “takes” elements from the painting, echoing the processes of disappearance and transformation within the work. Part of the broader Notabene (meaning “take note”), the series invites viewers to look more closely, both at the painting and at the fleeting nature of everyday reality.