Grichka Commaret creates intimate airbrushed paintings that reflect both personal and communal histories. His compositions draw on urban environments—public transport, city lights, surveillance systems, and brutalist architecture—while also referencing his family and the neighborhood of his youth. Working in small formats, Commaret encourages viewers to engage closely with the work, discovering subtle textures and carefully rendered details that might otherwise go unnoticed. His paintings unfold like narratives, depicting a city in constant motion and transformation. Shapes shift and interact across canvases, evoking a surreal, poetic vision of urban life where ghostly figures and fragmented forms emerge unexpectedly. Each figure is partially concealed within abstract elements, creating a sense of tension and immediacy. Through this layering of figuration and abstraction, Commaret explores the instability of urban spaces and the fleeting, often ephemeral presence of individuals within them, crafting a visual language that balances intimacy, memory, and the flux of contemporary city life. ...
