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Best Painting - 2025
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Petram Chalach
Petram Chalach
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Here Near. Oil on linen, 58x63, 2024 |
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Exhibited at Galerie Janine Rubeiz |
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At first glance, this work appears abstract, withholding easy interpretation. But a closer look reveals a more layered intention. The painting may not narrate directly, but resonates with a kind of restrained urgency, as if the artist is trying to say something essential without quite daring to. The result is a quiet but emotionally charged composition through soft, horizontal waves of earthy color. Transparent brown bleeds into deeper, denser tones until the image centers on a form that resembles distant, rugged rock formations, perhaps acting as barricades, or ghostlike echoes of wartime defenses embedded in mountainous terrain. Not fully seen, but surely felt. Their silence hums across the surface like memory refusing to fade.
Part of Chalach’s third solo show, Stereo Vision, this painting encapsulates the exhibition’s underlying rhythm: a restless push and pull between stability and collapse. The work holds the weight of personal and collective anxiety rooted both in local tensions and in the broader global sense of volatility. No solution or answer is on offer. Instead, the ambient unease of living is captured within a reality that shifts without warning, where the next moment always seems precarious.
There is nothing accidental in the painting’s brushstrokes. Its visual language, honed through personal experimentation and an ever-deepening engagement, expresses not only form but inner disquiet. The turbulence of the present, its relentless news cycles, its creeping dread, it all seeps into the palette, which leans heavily on browns both luminous and opaque.
Here Near is not a landscape in the traditional sense, nor is it purely a psychological terrain. It hovers somewhere in between: a place both known and imagined, touched by fear and stillness. Brushwork drags across the canvas in wide, quiet motions, creating large empty spaces that feel neither vacant nor accidental. The painting breathes uncertainty, and in doing so, mirrors the fragile equilibrium of our time.
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