The Icons series brings together figures drawn from history, politics, celebrity culture, and contemporary mythology. Each work begins with a real body, transformed into a constructed persona through layers of paint, material, costume, and staging. The result is not an imitation of the subject, but an unstable portrait: a figure suspended between recognition and invention, presence and projection. At once humorous, theatrical, grotesque, and seductive, the series reflects the way public images shape collective memory. These living sculptures question what remains of a person once they become an icon — and what the viewer chooses to believe.

Archival note
Created across different years, these living sculptures later became the basis for Icons, a digital collection of 24 works adapted through HARI Editions, and presented as Historical NFTs.