Paysage traverse d'incantations 1986

Jules Perahim, painted this dreamscape with oil. It’s got this smooth, almost airbrushed quality. Looking at this painting, I can't help but think about how Perahim layers his colors to create these odd, sci-fi birds in flight. There’s a real sense of precision, but then you notice these strange details, these dreamlike qualities. It’s like he’s revealing a hidden world right before our eyes. The sharp lines and stark contrasts in the birds’ wings really grab my attention. The smoothness of the surface is also striking; it’s almost like looking at a glossy photograph. Perahim’s work reminds me a bit of Yves Tanguy, with that similar sense of the unreal. Both of them invite us to get lost in the ambiguity, to find our own meanings in the spaces between things.