Shadows lengthen early in Victor Man’s latest exhibition The Absence That We Are, where each painting seems to hold something back—as if offering a silence more resonant than sound. On view at David Zwirner’s London gallery, this presentation continues Man’s pursuit of painting as an act of concealment as much as revelation. The title, borrowed from a line in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, names the void not as absence alone, but as an active presence—what remains after meaning has withdrawn.
Installation view, Victor Man, The Absence That We Are, David Zwirner, London, 2025.