YOU WIN!

YOU WIN! is a series of paintings and objects inspired by early 2000s media and memories that feel familiar but slightly out of reach.

The work draws from video game logic: levels, progression, direction. But instead of winning, the viewer is confronted with something fixed. A moment that can be recognized, but not re-entered. YOU WIN! is about the tension between remembering and being able to access the past.

Each work includes a physical object that appears to belong inside the painting. The objects act as physical fragments of memories, removed from function and held in place in the present.

The viewer is invited into a familiar structure: levels, movement, progression. But the expected outcome never arrives. Instead, the work holds a contradiction: the urge to interact, to go back to a time where things were more simple, and the impossibility of doing so.

YOU WIN! is not about winning.
It is about what remains after.

You already played the game.  You just don’t remember finishing it.