Grgur Akrap: WEST PALM BEACH | SALON

6 March - 11 April 2026 West Palm Beach

Private View: Thursday, 5th of March 2026, 6-8pm

West Palm Beach (Florida, USA)

 

"In my new painting series, Small Retrospective, I have revisited certain images from the past, painting them again in a smaller scale with oil on paper. Translated into smaller works, they function less as replicas than as afterimages. These works are reflections of my previous explorations, familiar landscapes, figures, and gestures distilled into intimate formats. The Small Retrospective is therefore a disturbance of memory. Repetition is a way of testing the reliability of images. How they fade, shift, and acquire new weight when removed from their original context. What emerges is a quiet dislocation, the sense that every image is already a memory of itself. It is a meditation on continuity, fragility, and the subtle presence of time within a painting. It gestures toward the unseen, the residual, the personal archive that accumulates quietly in the studio."