Yellowing, Performative video, Newspapers, coffee, yellow color, 2013

This performative video originates from an everyday routine of drinking coffee, smoking and reading newspapers, which I have reimagined as a ritual that shapes perception and the reception of information. By covering each newspaper page in yellow paint, reading becomes an act of erasure, emphasising and silencing the content simultaneously. The colour yellow operates as a multi-layered symbol of warning, sensationalism and ‘yellow journalism’. The painting process explores the paradox of presence and absence, interrogating the limits of information and the sense of overload imposed by the media.
The work challenges viewers to question their passivity in consuming news and establishes a meditative space within the everyday informational noise. Although the text physically disappears from the paper, its presence remains visible through its absence, suggesting that perception and reflection can only emerge through active engagement with information.