STATEMENT. 

The practice of AD-Reflex can be likened to a physical experience of the digital world. Utilising digital elements and 3-D modelling techniques with traditional painting, the work borders on the alchemical where no clear distinction can be drawn between the painterly and the digital. An AD-Reflex painting is a fusion of opposites, uniting the gooey mess of paint with technology’s clean, polished and seductive veneer. Subsequently, their work forms a distinctly new visual language that is resolutely grounded in the ‘here’ and ‘now’. 

The artist duo conflates and extends historical painting techniques, displaying both a Baroque mastery of chiaroscuro and a gestural handling of paint indebted to Abstract Expressionism. The work is characterized by a wealth of pictorial fragments with a flowing and somewhat deceptive spatial arrangement that results in a collage-like gathering of distinct pictorial motifs. Their innovative and radical interpretation of the most diverse subjects, combined with the sensuality and tactility of the paint medium activate their conceptual and symbolic meanings. 

Their work constantly morphs between abstraction and representation. Their central figures often show the scars of rituals and faithful violence. The characters in these tableaus often celebrate and focuss on marginalized people, ranging from albinism, to recycling efforts by individuals in African nations, and the global crises of capitalist exploitation and manipulation. 

With a strong focus on process, this mode of making embraces and integrates the digital and the handmade - printed imagery combines with layers of oil and thick impasto, blurring the boundaries, and creating a new kind of representation.