enquanto se torna – Danielian, São Paulo, 2026

Curated by Gabriela Gotoda

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Landscapes with horizons and formations that appear vegetal, perhaps geological. Interior and exterior scenes, human and animal interactions. Canvases veiled by stretchers and crates, scenes revealed between theatrical frames—these are some of the recurring motifs in Thales Pomb’s recent work. His paintings, drawings, and sculptures produce images that cannot be easily associated with reality. By confronting the tension between color and form in the construction of the pictorial image, these works subvert figuration in favor of gesture. Figures, scenes, and landscapes become metaphysical means for contemplating the act of imagining.

Through the continual assembling and disassembling of space-time, the fields of diffuse color in the paintings evoke rare kinds of light, such as the oblique luminosity that surrounds sunrise and sunset, particularly in nature. These lights traverse space briefly and yet—or perhaps because of this— create moments of suspension, in which everything is about to be revealed or concealed, everything seems on the verge of transformation. Chromatic contrasts and gradations outline phases of a fragmented light, structuring the space-time of a perpetual becoming, in which there exists only the possible infinity of the moment as it unfolds.