TAYSIR BATNIJI, Just in case
TAYSIR BATNIJI
Just in case
January 9 – March 27, 2025
Sfeir-Semler Downtown, Beirut
beirut
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Homeless Colors, 2023
pt remnants
Always using Time as a pivotal component, Batniji repeatedly tries to capture in his works fleeting instants, or to suspend split seconds, stretching them into abstract compositions that can take days to complete. In the series Remnants, he turns the distortions created by poor internet networks into series of paintings based on Telegram news chat images, before their violent content fully downloads onto the screen. They are still-unseen photos that the artist meticulously paints. The process prolongs the moment of ignorance, resulting in almost serene, fluid works on canvas that interrupt time, as if negating an unspeakable reality and preventing it from happening.