Impalpable, indecisive forms seem to emerge from the watery depths; floating, transparent bodies, sometimes evoking human plasticity, sometimes that of algae or jellyfish, or of some translucent, luminescent creature from the abyss...
Tim Breuer, a young painter from Berlin who studied with Peter Doig in Düsseldorf, has a strange world without depth or thickness. A porous world in which everything seems to pass through: watery bodies, darkness as if traversed by light, iridescent darkness, such as mauves or greens so deep and luminous at the same time... And when the paintings become opaque, the density of bodies and spaces is such that they appear impenetrable, gloomy and mysterious; as if haunted by a heavy secret...
"Interstitial spaces? "Figures in transit, both present and on the edge of absence"? " His narratives are open-ended", wrote artist and philosopher Hito Steyerl about the German painter, on the occasion of the exhibition devoted to him by Galerie Champ Lacombe last year. Indeed, we don't know who is coming, who is passing, who is overhanging these troubled waters and sinking into these midnight blues, glowing browns or deep blacks... nor what lies beneath these dense and multiple backdrops, these illuminated depths and aquatic hues.
The result of scraped layers of paint, erased as they are superimposed, these troubled, unstable spaces create a confused spatial relationship between the viewer and the canvas: seeming to blend stage and background, interior and exterior, reality and dream..., they plunge us into spatio-temporal indeterminacy, accentuating the strangeness of the solitary characters who haunt these shadowy zones freed from the power of reality to capsize us on the side of dreams.
Galerie Champ Lacombe
7, rue Champ-Lacombe, Biarritz
Stéphanie Dulout