Works

Joofproject is a contemporary art duo dedicated to creating distinctive works that explore social and cultural themes through a variety of techniques and materials. Their intention is to engage the viewer on both an emotional and reflective level, encouraging a deeper awareness of the issues they address.

Their practice is guided by ongoing experimentation, challenging traditional boundaries to develop work that feels fresh and meaningful. Drawing inspiration from everyday life and the complexities of the world around them, they aim to communicate clear and resonant messages through their visual language. A recurring element in their work is the human figure, X-rayed, marked, or otherwise transformed, used as a way to investigate the human condition and the stories embedded within it.

The shooted

  • Size: 133 x 196 cm
  • This large painting reflects on contemporary realities by combining human forms conceived as targets. In the foreground, the canvas containing the target is pierced by bullet holes. The figure in front covers the mouth of the figure behind it, which appears like a human X-ray. It is a juxtaposition of evocative forms that recall conflicts and acts of aggression against humanity.



Swosh

  • Size: 100 x 200 cm
  • This work was conceived as a large comic strip. A background of stylized, cartoon-like X-rays sets the stage for a bold, sweeping black shodou mark. It is a 150 × 200 cm mixed-media painting on canvas.


The bodies

  • Size: 180 x 200 cm

  • This painting represents the juxtaposition of a radiographic body placed next to a tattooed hug. The play of bodily analogies somehow recalls the portrait: one is inner and internal, and the other tells stories of the human skin.




The migrants

  • Size: 108 x132 cm

  • This painting is composed of two overlapping scenes. In the background, two figures struggle for their lives in the water, while in the foreground a tattooed man stands with his arms crossed, evoking a sense of imprisonment. The two scenes speak for themselves. 

Vatican flight

  • Size: 150 x 200 cm

  • This painting was born from a game. During a long, boring flight to Antiparos, we were watching a movie and began photographing the images on the screen as they overlapped with our own reflections. We later processed many of these photos and redrew several parts of them until we achieved a vibrant effect, enriched by particularly evocative foreground images.

The assembly

  • Size: 150 x 200 cm
  • It's the same effect from the same flight and the same movie, but… suddenly a mischievous little figure appeared in the foreground — completely by chance, and therefore all the more worthy of being highlighted.

JO

  • Size : 102 x120 cm
  • This is the fisrst part of our logo — we split it apart, distorted it, sketched it, and ultimately made it the protagonist.

OF

  • Size: 102 x120 cm
  • This is the second part of our logo destroyed and re-proposed in new forms.

The scarab

  • Size: 107 x 176 cm

  • The scarab is a symbol of rebirth, resurrection, and transformation, particularly in ancient Egyptian civilization, where it was regarded as a powerful protective amulet in life and a bearer of good fortune in the afterlife. The vortex, depicted as a spiral, embodies notions of dynamism, cyclicality, growth, change, and a connection to infinity. It is a universal motif found across cultures and religions, symbolizing the cycle of life, the spiritual journey, cosmic energy, and renewal. Variations of this form appear in symbols such as the Celtic spiral (triskele), the nautilus shell, and ancient temple decorations. Placing the scarab within the vortex felt to us like a gesture of profound evocative power.


 

Pelvy

  • Size: 100 x160 cm
  • We found a glass talisman with a shape reminiscent of a heart or a uterus. Its surface reflected many colors, and we placed it within a bodily niche that vaguely resembles an X-ray of the pelvis. We were interested in highlighting this mysterious and profoundly generative part of the human body.

Amygdala

  • Size: 98 x112 cm
  • This work also begins with a talisman full of reflections, overlapping a sort of medallion that mirrors a landscape. A talisman evokes magic, omens, and prophecy — an element that opens a space for encountering visions of the future.

Saint Sebastian

  • Size: 130 x158 cm
  • This large portrait of a young man recalls 16th-century painting; it draws on our Mannerist tradition, which remains embedded in our practice. How can we, as moderns, relate to such harmony and beauty except by attempting to disrupt it? The red-orange disfigurement does not negate the figure, it amplifies it.

Noli me tangere

  • Size: 87 x187 cm 
  • This is a further attempt to ironically deface ancient Italian painting and an attempt to assemble on different levels a contemporary sign with tradition.

Hands on

  • Size: 120x160 cm
  • This painting inspired us strongly  for the movement of the hands, a movement which we reinforced with the coloured circles which underline and enhance, creating a movement which gesticulates exactly like our frequent body language.


Whirl

  • Size: 85 x100 cm
  • An ancient gaze of complicit figures, because they are accomplices. A vortex of uncoordinated signs like the blows of an ancient murder... she is Judith