In this new body of paintings, Rotterdam-based artist Xertu unfolds a tender, sun-drenched world where the fleetingness of love, beauty, and youth lingers like the last light of summer.
He traces delicate passages of intimacy within and beyond friendship,
attending to a bittersweet ambivalence shaped by quiet tensions,
hidden desires, and unspoken affections that surface as both excess
and residue through the fissures of the grammar of social life.
