enquanto se torna – Danielian, São Paulo, 2026

Curated by Gabriela Gotoda

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Landscapes depicting horizons and formations seemingly vegetal, possibly geological. Indoor and outdoor scenes of human and animal interactions. Canvases concealed by cages and boxes, scenes revealed through theatrical frames— these are some of the main motifs that appear in Thales Pomb’s recent production. His paintings, drawings, and sculptures create images that cannot be easily associated with reality. By confronting the tension between color and form in pictorial composition, these works subvert figuration to favor gesture. Figures, scenes, and landscapes here become metaphysical means for the contemplation of imagination.

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.