"Imagine you're falling. But there is no floor."
Hito Steyerl; In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment in Vertical Perspective.
The works of Berlin-based painter Tim Breuer disclose as much as they hold. They are interstitial spaces, figures in transit, both present and on the edge of absence. His narratives are open, disarming, rendered with the utmost delicacy. The densest palettes reveal subtle tones that are sometimes almost aquatic. His influences are multiple - from Ad Reinhardt, Terry Winters, Vuillard, Hammershoi, Munch, to Hito Steryrl and Karl ove Knausgaard. The surface of each work is the result of layers of paint added, then scraped away, leaving traces of the initial drawing. Erasing, superimposing, subtracting, cancelling are all elements that give a feeling of agitation, of encapsulated time. What is represented comes from both inside and outside, as if the painting were the meeting point between the forces of the inside and the outside. They are manifestations of passage. Of passage and endless transformation.
