About

ARTIST

DINGA CHRISTIAN FOHTUNG

Lovers and Enemies

ART STATEMENT



My art is born from the ashes of loss a father's passing at 27 and a wife's at 30 and rises as a testament to resilience, a dialogue between loss and renewal. Through tactile materials like acrylic, oil, pencil, and charcoal on canvas, cloth, and cardboard, I trace the raw edges of human emotion, transforming personal sorrow into universal explorations of identity and belonging. My work does not dwell in darkness but seeks the light. The fractured lines of my brush on canvas mirror fragmented histories mending into wholeness, while the fluidity of oil on cloth becomes a metaphor for migration's restless tides. Here, my mind itself is a canvas a vessel for stories of healing and transformation emerging not as myth but as a bridge between ancestral roots and collective reimagining.