Eliot Greenwald on view at The Wall, Almine Rech Brussels, until February 24, 2024.
Within the irregular curved shapes of Eliot Greenwald’s paintings are captivating landscapes filled with improbable plant formations, doubled planets in the sky, and the body of a car that stretches and morphs. For Greenwald’s latest body of ‘Night Car’ paintings, however, a new structure emerges, Flabby Saturn, a stationary structure resembling the colossal planet Saturn which seems to have lost its traditional spherical shape with a ring and become less certain. This structure has been removed from the cosmos, entangled with flora, and therefore married with the landscape itself. All that is witnessed or imagined is vulnerable to drastic reevaluation.
This new addition to his imagined world, in the form of ‘Flabby Saturn’, revealed itself to Greenwald during a time of intense introspection. Through drawing intuitively, he created some sketches of what the highly characterized and distinct planet, Saturn, would look like if it were scientifically reinterpreted and found to be shaped quite unlike any other cosmic body. Fascinated by the complexity of natural phenomena and the astounding regenerative qualities of human perception, he began exploring the visual representation of this absurd idea.
- Milena Oldfield, researcher