Diptych Litic Drift, 2025

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A diptych in two tall vertical panels, each 50 × 150 cm, acrylic on canvas, hung together as one field of 100 × 150 cm and split by a breath of white wall between them.

People see different things in it. Some read a snow road running to a horizon that never arrives — lines holding their direction through everything moving around them. Others see stone, split open and read from the inside: a mineral section, quartz and mica caught mid-drift. Others see nothing figurative at all. The work holds all of it, and which reading comes first depends on the light in the room and on who is standing in front of it. That is exactly what the filmed conversations around this painting are about — different people, the same canvas, entirely different things seen.

The material is mineral. Layered pours of mineral white, pearl grey and warm ash are threaded with ink veins that fracture into fine capillaries, the way seams travel through rock rather than being drawn on it. Pearl and mica surface at an angle and disappear head-on. In places the surface crusts and granulates; in others it clears and settles. Nothing here was brushed into shape — the drift happened while the material was still moving, and it was stopped rather than finished. Finished with lacquer, not resin: the surface stays dry and tactile, closer to stone than to glass.

The vertical format gives a room height, and the split between the panels is part of the composition: the movement carries across the gap, so the two halves read as one interrupted current rather than as a pair. The palette is deliberately quiet — white, greige, bone, every register of grey. The work does not compete with what is around it. It changes slowly through the day, and it rewards the second and the hundredth look more than the first.

The panels are sold individually as well; each stands on its own.

Exhibited at Art Capital, Grand Palais, Paris, 2026.

Lithic Drift features in Seven Voices — the Turik & Art interview series, in which architects, designers and private collectors respond independently to the same painting. The episodes are on the Turik & Art channel on YouTube.

Turik & Art is a studio based between Paris and Marbella, working in acrylic, epoxy resin and lacquer on large formats for private residences.

Hand-signed on the front, branded brass plaque on the side edge, Certificate of Authenticity included. Ships stretched on its frames, double-boxed, insured.