The Uninvited, 2026
Homage to the Other

Acrylic on canvas
24 carat fine 999/gold, copper impact metal, rust and patina colours

130 x 195 cm⁣ / 51 x 77 in⁣
No. #202603

Legend has it that a vampire can only enter if invited. This old rule turns Nosferatu's menace into a question of hospitality: it is not the stranger itself that is dangerous, but the decision to let it in — or to shut it out.

The rat and the flea in the background evoke the plague that has always accompanied Nosferatu: the stranger as carrier of disease, as a screen for collective fear. This fear resurfaces with every new illness — most recently with Covid, which exposed the same old reflex: to seek origin and blame in the foreign.

A fine strand of barbed wire runs through the face as a dividing line — between its bright, familiar half and its dark, animal, rat-like skin. Good against evil, us against them, united in a single face.

The title is homage, not accusation: a bow to the stranger who is so often denied entry — though, like Nosferatu himself, all it asks for is to be let in.