A TRACE OF SILENCE

Katja Pál

17. 2. –11. 3. 2026

GMZ-023, 2025, acrylic-canvas-bound panel, 88 cm x 96 cm x 3 cm

Photo: Biró Dávid

 The presented works are the latest research into the image as an autonomous object. It is a series of works in which I playfully test the boundary between painting and sculpture, between the reduction of minimalism and intuitive gesture. I first conceptually design each work digitally: I determine its shape, proportions and lines that form the compositional structure. In doing so, I rely exclusively on internal impulses, without the use of mathematical formulas or modular systems. Despite digital planning, I insist on a completely manual execution: I shape the support and paint the surface in such a way as to exclude the visible gesture from it and emphasize the physical nature of the painted object.

The departure from the closed geometry of the square led to the arch as the starting element of the composition. Form is no longer just a structure, but the central field of my research. Irregular pictorial bodies, broken down by cutouts, dissolve the closedness of previous formats and establish new spatial relationships. Negative space does not function as an absence, but as an active element of the composition, which co-shapes the perception of the whole.

Through reduction and quiet, deliberate interventions, I expose the physical and perceptual limits of painting. The works resist immediacy and spectacle, inviting a slow, concentrated encounter in which attention gradually deepens and perception passes through subtle shifts. I offer the paintings not as images, but as wall objects of silence and contemplation. They create a space for concentrated observation — a space in which the viewer finds himself following a trail of silence, on the edge of the perceptible and without a predetermined interpretation.

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