Garden of Delights

Garden of Delights is a series of paintings depicting empty interiors— waiting rooms, reception halls—charged with tension and mystery. Though filled with furniture, these spaces are eerily deserted, evoking anxiety, solitude, and abandonment.

Drawing from cinematic influences, these rooms feel staged, suspended in time, as if something just happened or is about to. The use of artificial light, dense patterns, and a dominant green palette contradicts modernist ideals of white walls and natural sunlight, instead cultivating a sense of claustrophobia and unease.

The title refers to the Garden of Eden, once a symbol of perfection, now lost—just like the utopias of modern architecture. These interiors become gardens of projection, where architecture mimics nature: tiles turn into ponds, carpets into fields. They invite contemplation, embodying both spiritual resonance and subtle eroticism—columns, pipes, and interlocking forms suggest bodies in a state of tension or arousal.

These spaces are neither clearly public nor private, neither fully futuristic nor entirely nostalgic. They belong to a retrofuturistic imaginary, where the past’s vision of the future has aged and curdled. The absence of human figures amplifies the ambiguity: are these places abandoned for a moment—or forever?

What is for sure, is that the party is over.