Myre Nick Torgoff

Artist statement

I work with forms that never quite stay in place.

What interests me is not the image as a result, but the image as a phenomenon: a zone of turbulence, an organism in mutation, a substance still searching for its own coherence. Each impression, each superimposition, each distortion is a way of revealing the life of forms—their hesitation, their overflowing, their desire to reconfigure themselves.

I often start with very structured elements: lines, networks, symmetries, silhouettes. Then I push them until they break, contradict each other, or split in two. The work is written in that zone: in imbalance, in instability, in a chaos that I try to guide without stifling it.

I am looking for tension rather than resolution.

Many of my images draw inspiration from the body, from living things, or from forms that could almost be considered as such. Hybridizations, fragments, energies rather than figures. I am drawn to this boundary where one no longer knows if one is looking at an organ, a creature, a topography, or an abstraction. These ambiguities allow me to let several levels of interpretation breathe simultaneously, without confining the image to a single identity.

Technically, screen printing serves me as much as a tool as a testing ground. I like its way of imposing a framework while allowing for chance, grain, and variation. My prints often emerge as collisions between precision and excess. I don't try to control everything that happens; rather, I seek situations where the material invents its own logic.

If a personal aesthetic emerges from my work, it undoubtedly lies in this idea: to create forms that remain open, vibrant, and in transformation.

Forms that do not stop, that do not freeze, that continue to move even when the ink is dry.