Weserhalle is pleased to present Blink Flurry, a new series of paintings by Aks Misyuta. Known for her expressive sculptural figures and psychologically charged imagery, Misyuta—in her first solo exhibition in Berlin—turns to a quieter, more intimate scale. The works, modest in size yet rich in energy, open like fragments of memory: fleeting, kaleidoscopic impressions that seem to hover between visibility and disappearance.
The title Blink Flurry evokes the rapid, involuntary rhythm of the eyelids—a gesture that erases and rewrites vision, standing in as a metaphor for the fragile transience of life. Figures and landscapes emerge only to blur again, like images recalled in the space between waking and dreaming. Surface becomes a vital part of this experience. Dragging rough brushes through layers of paint, Misyuta creates grainy striations that recall lenticular images from her childhood—shifting depending on the angle, offering the sense that something else might be revealed, even if only metaphorically. The texture flickers like white noise, amplifying depth and hinting at forms hidden in the shadows.
The people and places here are phantoms: vague impressions drawn from memory and imagination, moments from childhood or youth, echoes of things seen or heard. Painted without sketches or references, the process is wholly intuitive—images rise from the first dark layer like photographs developing in a darkroom, gradually revealing themselves yet always carrying the uncertainty of change.
While Misyuta’s earlier work often extended into bronze and sculptural form—grotesque yet tender figures that embodied both resilience and fragility—Blink Flurry remains resolutely painterly. Its small format reflects a recent attraction to intimacy, works that feel like tiny shards of a broken mirror. Each painting is a suspended moment, vibrating with both presence and absence, asking the viewer to linger in the unstable space between clarity and blur, between what can be grasped and what inevitably slips away.
