Two Things can be true. Salvita De Corte

Born into a creative household, de Corte grew up surrounded by painting as a daily presence rather than an external discipline. Both her parents were artists, and the studio was not only a workspace but a shared environment. Within this atmosphere, painting was first experienced as something intimate and continuous. The passing of her father marked a decisive rupture in this continuity. In the aftermath of his death, de Corte inherited his studio alongside the brushes and blank canvases, that’s when her own practice began to take form. Painting emerged not as a planned decision, but as an act of response.

In Two things can be true, the Indonesian artist continues to explore the unstable nature of presence: how something can feel both close and distant, held and dissolving at the same time. Figures appear and fade across the surface of the raw cotton canvas with acrylic and natural pigments, maintaining a surface that remains deliberately porous. The paint is allowed to seep, stain, and settle gradually, producing images that seem to emerge rather than be constructed. This process reflects a broader understanding of experience as something that accumulates in layers, never fully resolved, but constantly reconfigured over time.

Across the artworks, identity unfolds as relational and the figures appear intertwined or subtly doubled, drawn from lived encounters. Moving between singular and doubled forms, the paintings suggest both isolation and the presence of multiple selves, personal and inherited, held within one body. Each image holds a state in transition, defined through connection and continuous redefinition. What remains is a presence that resists settling.