François Ghebaly presents Paintings, a solo exhibition by Salim Green bringing together a new body of small-format paintings produced between 2025 and 2026. Working through a visual language shaped by concealment, fragmentation, and abstraction, Green approaches painting as a central site within his expanded multidisciplinary practice, where questions of visibility and illegibility operate simultaneously as formal strategies and conceptual constraints.

Across the exhibition, Green develops compositions that hover between recognition and obscurity, collapsing imagery until it resists clear interpretation. Drawing from textures, weathering, reflections, and peripheral visual details, the artist constructs paintings that emerge through processes of distortion and withholding rather than direct representation. This approach reflects Green’s ongoing interest in opacity and concealment, themes that recur throughout his practice as methods for negotiating perception, identity, and the politics of visibility.

Painting functions here not simply as image-making, but as an experimental space in which meaning remains unstable and continuously shifting. Green’s layered surfaces and condensed visual structures encourage viewers to navigate ambiguity, allowing abstraction to become less a stylistic category than an active methodology. Through this tension between revelation and withdrawal, the works open a field of psychological and spatial uncertainty in which images appear simultaneously familiar and inaccessible.