Anxieties generated by social unrest seep into everyday life, taking shape as monolithic forms or dispersing into twists and vibrations. At times, they can be contained; at others, they blur our entire field of perception, ultimately overtaking it and reshaping its meaning. Supernova, Ramon Sadîc’s first solo exhibition in collaboration with Sandwich, brings together a series of paintings through which the artist probes his position within a context marked by social and political instability, constructing a visual meditation on contemporary uncertainty.

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The artist’s exploration of how overwhelming emotions come to inhabit images and moments close to him unfolds through a self-referential structure. From this core, the approach gradually expands into a broader affective geography. An artificial red, the convulsive twisting of a point across the pictorial plane, the presence of a drone—these volatile appearances of what the artist terms “manipulative elements” are formally emphasized through the use of pigment. Applied without binders, the pigment remains flexible and receptive to prolonged intervention, unlike other media. A parallel thus emerges with the artist’s way of processing these emotions: a continuous engagement within the image, through cutting, distortion, and transfiguration.

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The “manipulative elements” take on the scale of hyperobjects, gradually overshadowing the protagonists, who recede into the background as narrative threads are suspended. Reduced to almost incidental presences in certain compositions that subtly reference the Flemish tradition, the figures absorb these premonitions without fully internalising them. Their relationship to these apparitions remains ambiguous: at times they appear to tolerate them, at others to accept them with resignation, or even to enter into a tacit complicity with them.

What begins as a disruption is eventually integrated, as deviation gradually becomes a guiding direction in Ramon Sadîc’s work.