Vita Eruhimovitz

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

Beautiful Katamari, June 2026 Beautiful Katamari is a Japanese video game from the early 2000s in which a rolling sticky mass tears through the world, gathering its fragments and compacting them into new stars. The paintings in this body of work operate as moving systems driven by accumulation. A central body forms and immediately destabilizes, absorbing what it encounters: gesture, structure, image, debris. Nothing is discarded. Everything adheres. The image grows through contact. A strange optimism runs through this logic. Destruction and construction coincide. The work moves with mythic absurdity: scale collapses, incompatible fragments lock together, and the world reorganizes through pressure and adhesion. Violence, often playful, drives the paintings as they gather, overwrite, and recombine without hierarchy. Bodies circulate through this field in unstable states, emerging, splitting, dissolving. Birth, sexuality, death, and decay register as material conditions. Surfaces swell, rupture, leak, and harden. Fragments bind into provisional wholes that retain the trace of their formation and breakdown. I unfocus my gaze, allowing painted objects and paint-as-object to coexist in one space. I move between constructing and disrupting volumes: scrubbing away, dragging through, excavating. Extended sessions compress attention into a continuous state where language falls away from form.The work treats perception as something that can be stressed and tested. Systems form,...

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