The path of an artist is the unveiling of their intuition. It’s not a defined project but rather the dialogue process between the gesture and the answer of the artwork, which tells what it is. All that remains for the artist is the humility of accepting the work manifestation upon the intuitive gesture.

This exhibition encompasses three distinct modules whose productions were conceived over ten years. When we look at these stories united, we see a trail left on the path. This reveals something about the double meaning of the word surface when read in its different forms: sur_face (over the face) and surface (regarding something’s uppermost layer).

Wickbold’s raw material is the human face and the possibilities of intervening in a portrait as a construction field for a new identity that overlaps the photographed subject, as we see in the Naïve series. In everything Wickbold does, there’s hidden research involved. A legitimate study that stems from the intuition, almost naïve, that the world can still be invented. And it can. If, on the one hand, digital connections challenge the skin as the human body’s largest organ, on the other, we still possess our most powerful antennas on the epidermis. In I Am Online, the artist investigates the friction between the human tissue and the internet tissue, thus revealing layers, noises and some disconnection between what we perceive and how we feel.