Davide Querin

My work explores interior, subtle, and distant worlds—spaces that cannot be described literally, but instead reveal themselves through perception, memory, and imagination.
What we are is shaped by the continuous interplay between lived experiences, relationships, thoughts, emotions, and dreams: fragments that form an ever-changing inner mosaic.

In my paintings, my aim is to open access to these invisible spaces, drawing the viewer into a suspended dimension where distant sensations, remembered images, and forgotten emotions resurface. Each work becomes an invitation to contemplation and imagination, allowing each viewer to discover their own stories, their own inner places, faces, and times.

For this reason, nothing in my paintings is represented in a strictly realistic way: neither figures nor environments are literal depictions of reality, but rather metaphysical forms and dreamlike dimensions. Interiors and exteriors merge, as do the conscious and the unconscious, the real and the symbolic, in spaces where time and distance dissolve.

To express this vision, I work with traditional oil painting techniques as well as drawing, using a glazing process. This layered method allows me to build depth, light, and transparency, bringing forth images in which thoughts, emotions, and memories become perceptible.

The result is work that is not only meant to be viewed, but experienced inwardly—opening a personal and unique space for each viewer.