Tarik Mendes — Net Screen Artworks
Tarik Mendes’ Net Screen works explore transparency, layering, repetition, movement, and the relationship between image and structure. Developed through layers of net and screen-based materials, the works move beyond the traditional surface of painting, creating compositions that shift according to light, perspective, and the position of the viewer.
Rather than working on conventional canvas, Mendes uses translucent net and screen structures as both surface and material. Images, colors, patterns, and gestures overlap across multiple layers, allowing visual information to appear, disappear, and transform as the viewer moves around the work.
The Net Screen series reflects Mendes’ ongoing interest in connectivity, permeability, repetition, and flux. Each work exists between painting, sculpture, and installation, challenging the idea of an artwork as a fixed image viewed from a single position.
Light and surrounding space become active components of the work. Shadows, transparency, depth, and changing viewpoints continually alter what is visible, making each Net Screen artwork a physical and perceptual experience.
Through this evolving body of work, Tarik Mendes investigates how an image can extend beyond a flat surface and become an object that interacts with architecture, light, space, and the viewer.
