“The Making of Me” is a multidisciplinary project presented by FLIEG in which painting and performance all unfold together in a special spatial, evolving, continuous environment. The project is an open and evolutive system rather than a finished object, work of art. The work operates as a continuous, evolving space rather than a fixed or finished artwork. Fragments, interruptions, and parallel narratives replace traditional linear storytelling. It is a visual art altogether presented with almost theatrical result. 

The painter withdraws behind the painting while the performer assumes and destabilises that role. Within this framework, identity and authorship remain fluid and unstable. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979), this project aims to transpose literary fragmentation into a visual, spatial, and performative experience. Meaning is not contained within a single image; it travels and emerges through the interaction between painting, body, and space, destabilising fixed notions of identity, authorship, and the relationship between painter, performer, and viewer.

This approach is rooted in a personal position responding to a world without secret: a contemporary condition of constant visibility and self-exposure, where everything is being tracked, and where the viewer is increasingly inclined to search for the identity of the painter rather than to emerge within the work itself.

The notion of “me” remains deliberately unstable, open to multiple interpretations, as the question of the self becomes increasingly overloaded.

Blurring distinctions between creator and subject is a decision that challenges my uncertainty about the relationship between image and narrativity. Mystifying authorship becomes a way to confront this condition, extending an ongoing inquiry into whether figurative painting must tell a story or whether it can function as a language in itself. Yet meaning inevitably emerges through the presence of the viewer.