Artist: Jonathan Wateridge

GRIMM presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jonathan Wateridge. This is the artist's second exhibition with the gallery in London.

Jonathan Wateridge’s paintings are infused with atmospheric suspense. In this new body of work, figures dissolve into dream-like spaces, where distant interiors unfold alongside tempestuous land and seascapes that echo the arrangements of classical painting. Imbued with mythic overtones, these new paintings draw on the concept of Peripeteia — the sudden reversal of fortune in Greek theatre —capturing moments of suspension and transition, and framing them as inflection points where tension, uncertainty and latent tragedy quietly accumulate. Tracing notions of cyclical and repeated fate, Wateridge’s figures assimilate into their environments, appearing translucent or, at times, atomised, evoking a growing sense of unease. Erased moments operate as apertures of attention rather than revelation: sites where looking is slowed and deferred. Within these elusive spaces, Wateridge’s figures remain suspended in anticipation. As if stencilled from a dream, these fragmentary compositions invite us to ruminate on moments that hang delicately, if not fatefully, in the balance.