Enoc came up with a painting process as if he'd plugged into an early moog synthesizer. It straddled the line between abstraction and representation. A kind of up side down tight rope walker. Making him an artist who feeds the hand that shakes him.
Reflex Amsterdam is pleased to present Selected Drawings & Paintings, an exhibition bringing together works by Enoc Perez that move through memory, modernism, desire and the unstable space between abstraction and representation.
“I’m just trying to steal a time that preceded me,” Perez has said. “A moment when everything was new to me and when possibility was realistic.”
That sense of reaching towards something just out of reach runs throughout the exhibition. Perez’s paintings draw from the visual language of modernism, architecture and popular imagery, yet his subjects are never simply descriptions of what they depict. They become carriers of memory; personal, collective and imagined.
The hotels of Puerto Rico, in particular, return as places suspended between lived experience and projection. At once familiar and distant, they evoke a world shaped by childhood, longing and possibility.