
Unfamiliar, Luminous, Remote marks Amit Berman’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, following an artist residency in Switzerland earlier this year. Bringing together a new body of paintings, the exhibition considers intimacy, memory, and vulnerability through gesture, texture, and atmosphere.
Borrowed from the novel Love, Leda, “Unfamiliar, Luminous, Remote” underlines experiences of estrangement, moments of illumination, and the emotional distances that shape human relationships. Across quiet domestic interiors, fragments of landscape, and solitary figures poised between openness and retreat, Amit’s paintings inhabit the space between familiarity, dislocation and uncertainty.
Created against a backdrop of war, displacement and emotional precarity, these works reflect an ongoing search for connection and belonging within a reality that often feels unstable.
Layers of paint remain visible, while expressive brushwork foregrounds the act of making itself. The resulting compositions are both intimate and unsettled.
Amit Berman’s work is deeply autobiographical, reflecting his personal experiences and relationships through his own perspective or those of his partner. His practice explores themes of intimacy, longing, and the fleeting beauty of mundane moments, capturing their emotional resonance through vivid, painterly expression. For Berman, painting is both a ritual and a meditative process, allowing him to navigate universal feelings such as love, fear, anxiety, and the search for connection.
Fabienne Levy is a Swiss contemporary art gallery with locations in Lausanne, Geneva, and Zurich. Dedicated to contemporary artistic practices, the gallery places particular emphasis on works that engage with and critically reflect the world we live in. Conceived as a space for dialogue and intellectual exchange, it presents thoughtfully curated exhibitions that highlight individual artists, offering in-depth encounters with their work and ideas. Both its curatorial program and Fabienne Levy’s personal collection demonstrate a strong commitment to socially engaged art, supporting artists who explore the complexities and challenges of contemporary life.

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