Soft blue-grey washes accumulate into a form that hovers between glyph and vessel - the white void at its centre reads as both aperture and absence. Mbeki's looping silhouette, painted with blunt, unhurried strokes, suggests a creature mid-breath or mid-speech. The muted palette holds everything in suspension, neither fully figurative nor fully abstract, while the small protrusion at left introduces an off-balance, almost comic tenderness to the whole composition.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery
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Soft blue-grey washes accumulate into a form that hovers between glyph and vessel - the white void at its centre reads as both aperture and absence. Mbeki's looping silhouette, painted with blunt, unhurried strokes, suggests a creature mid-breath or mid-speech. The muted palette holds everything in suspension, neither fully figurative nor fully abstract, while the small protrusion at left introduces an off-balance, almost comic tenderness to the whole composition.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery