Peter Peri’s abstract paintings resound with a dislocated and ephemeral ambience. Transcending the apprehension of perceptible space, Peri’s astringent compositions oscillate between both macro and microcosmic conceptions of scale. Emerging from and enmeshed within abyssal black grounds, faintly tinted cilia and floating orbs suggest molecular structures or cosmological configurations, converting the precision language of science into visualisations that are poetic and sublime.

With titles such as Bloodsucker, Slab Block, and The Hearing Forest And The Seeing Field, Peri’s canvases offer portentous suggestions, extracting a disquieting mysticism from their sparse pictorial fields. Within the pristine contours of his diagrammatical motifs, Peri interrupts the ascetic sterility of his surfaces with minute traces of intimate intervention. In areas the pitch density of his veneer spontaneously bubbles over impasto under-painting or erodes to leave an oil-stained effect; while delicately rendered lines and arcs shift imperceptibly in tone, some vanishing into nowhere, others interceding with trailing drips of paint. Through this subtle mediation, Peri’s work entrances with a rarefied elegance, creating a highly articulate abstraction that is both analytical and synesthetic.