Mathias Philip works at the threshold between abstraction and the human trace.

His paintings begin in observation of spaces, encounters, and fleeting emotional states.

Autobiographical elements move quietly beneath the work, not as confession but as structure. Figures dissolve into fields of color; gestures emerge only to disappear again. The paintings resist certainty, holding the viewer in a space of suspension.

With a background in photography and film, Philip approaches painting with a sensitivity to framing and atmosphere, while embracing the material unpredictability of paint as a way to destabilize the fixed image.