Rather than treating the canvas as a structure or base to paint on, Ines uses the canvas as a medium in its own right. In her ‘Synthetis’ series, Ines grafts and combines different raw-cotton canvases, layering them, in exploration and inquisition towards ‘the matter’, with the canvas as the matter. What is usually part of the structure is now exposed, revealing another painted surface within the structure. The inner surface of the canvas is flipped and stitched to the front, literally subverting the surface-structure order of the artwork