The Beautiful Alpha

2017 – Painting on advertisement

The Most Beautiful Alpha appropriates an advertisement depicting an idealized image of beauty and disrupts it through the formation of a bold and primitively shaped letter A across its surface.

The original title is partially erased, leaving only the German phrase Das schöne A—The Beautiful A. Through erasure and intervention, the work shifts beauty from the represented image toward the abstraction of symbols, their power and physicality, questioning how beauty is constructed, named, and ultimately perceived.