CITLALI LUCIA HALFAR
Aber Sonst Alles Schön Hier, Oil on canvas, 2026, 30 x 25 cm, courtesy the artist

The artist says:
My paintings only depict people who are close to me and whom I know very well, because only then do I feel that I am portraying a specific person and not just a human being. All of my painted moments are based on real, unposed situations that have occurred in my everyday life.

The concept of memories plays a particularly important role in my painting, because by working out a person in a selected moment, I have to face every detail of that moment and thus relive this memory in a differentiated way from my current perspective. I look for situations in which my perception of a part of the realities of the person depicted is shown. These are usually moments when the person is very calm and preoccupied with themselves.