Inspired by the early 2000s Japanese game Beautiful Katamari, Vita Eruhimovitz’s exhibition approaches painting through accumulation, collision, and transformation. In the game, a sticky rolling mass gathers fragments of the world until they are compressed into new stars. Eruhimovitz uses this premise as a structural metaphor for paintings in which bodies, gestures, architectural fragments, and material traces are absorbed, disrupted, and recombined.

In Beautiful Katamari, play becomes inseparable from violence. Forms gather, press against one another, rupture, and reappear. Moving between figuration and abstraction, seduction and damage, birth and decay, Eruhimovitz builds unstable pictorial systems where meaning is continually formed and undone.