“Ancestors”

Description

Title:

“Ancestors”

Artist:

ArNoUx

Year:

2025

Medium:

Acrylic on recycled food box (Chicken Cordon Bleu box)
Recycled Art / German Expressionist Figurative

Dimensions:

Approx. 8 x 10 in (20 x 25 cm)

Curatorial Statement:

“Ancestors” emerges from an unexpected revelation while painting on a simple recycled food box. The face appeared instinctively—raw, familiar, almost like the spiritual echo of a distant great-uncle, an ancestral presence resurfacing through memory and intuition.

Painted in bold, expressive strokes, the piece carries the emotional immediacy of German Expressionism and the intimate intimacy of recycled art. The box becomes a relic, a vessel that merges everyday life with lineage, identity, and the mysterious ways ancestry manifests itself in the present.

ArNoUx transforms an ordinary container of Chicken Cordon Bleu into a symbolic portal, blurring past and present, elevating discarded materials into powerful narrative artifacts.