The Mauve Hour (Double Sight)

Against an intense blue background, two white dots stand out like staring eyes. The work's title, Double Sight, seems to confirm this. However, it also seems to evoke the formal and symbolic play that Paul Maheke creates in this composition. Indeed, despite its vaporous outline, the creature and its piercing gaze seem to evoke the owl, an idea reinforced once again by the title Mauve Hour, which evokes the coming of dusk, while at the same time resembling, from different angles, other creatures or even a human body. In this way, our vision of this work is equally split between the human and the non-human, the corporeal and the formless, the visible and the invisible. Through the topicality of the mauve hour, the artist evokes questions of change and the erasure of identity. He detaches us from any formal singularity and plunges us into the meditative observation of a ghostly, haunting gaze.