Between Shadow and Light: Qiu Ruixiang and Peter Welz Dissolve the Body

There is a moment, between darkness and light, when things begin to lose their contours. It is there that Qiu Ruixiang and Peter Welz meet and drift apart. One slowly draws bodies out of shadow, the other dissolves them into light until they become pure chromatic vibration. Two opposite movements driven by the same question: what remains of the body when it ceases to be merely an image? In Qiu Ruixiang’s paintings, faces and figures seem to surface from dark backgrounds without ever fully taking shape. His paintings evolve through layers, erasures, and barely visible traces. There are no fixed identities, only presences suspended between appearance and disappearance. Peter Welz moves in the opposite direction. In his video installation based on sculptures by Ugo Rondinone, the camera approaches the surfaces so closely that the body turns into an abstract landscape: red, orange, and yellow flood the space, enveloping the viewer. More than an exhibition, it is a slow experience of looking, where meaning emerges through light, matter, and time.