Them and Me
Abraham Aronovitch, 2026. Acrylic on canvas, 97 × 130 cm, Behind the Obvious series.
At the heart of this device, the body no longer fully adheres to what it recognises: it becomes the point of convergence for a collective history.
Reading note
The painting Them and Me is structured around a face-to-face encounter between a solitary figure and a multiplicity of spectral silhouettes. These forms, evoking both ancestors and the successive stages of a life, saturate the bathroom mirror. The pictorial treatment prioritises the silhouette and the process of erasure, leaving the “little blue” as the only figure of chromatic stability amidst an environment of unstable reflections.
The work proposes an ontological inventory where the mirror acts as a memorial portal. The question of “place” becomes central: how can the subject define themselves in the midst of this lineage that observes them? In this critical zone, the individual is no longer alone before their image, but faces atavism and the ghosts of their own existence. The painting captures this moment of suspension where one realises that every reflection is a negotiation between what is inherited from history and what one decides to make of it.
The whole room: The Presence
Room 3 · The Presence, The Rampart Identity : 8 paintings, in hanging order.
