Galeria Plan B

Bild 1–5: Courtesy Galeria Plan B
Bild 6: Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Plan B Cluj, Berlin

On the Latest Paintings of Achraf Touloub 1999, the day of the great eclipse. The neighborhood's residents had gathered. A motley crowd. Each one held in hand a fragment of cut medical X-ray film, scrutinizing the celestial phenomenon through it. The painter, for his part, watched the watchers. Suddenly the eclipse's light revealed the fragmentary images held within the radiographs. "I have no memory of the sun, only of what appeared to me then: opaque bodies gazing at the sun through images of transparent bodies." What becomes of a living, branching thought when it sheds its words to…