Phillip Gabriel—Chroma Trigger

›Chroma Trigger‹ is Phillip Gabriel’s first exhibition in Germany, presenting a group of paintings centered on the motif of hands, including a selection from the series ›Spoleto‹. Gabriel’s works steal and layer fleeting images into congealed surfaces of finessed oil, each canvas a cluster of small vignettes and sketchy redactions. They act like fleeting dreams—glimpses of moody skies, masked faces, limbs stabilized with metal—forming dense, dreamlike fields that blur the line between memory and media. Inspired by Filipino jeepneys—WWII trucks transformed into vibrant, mobile shrines to pop culture and faith—Gabriel’s paintings channel a punchy collision of symbols, serving as moving containers for histories, desires, and improvisations that resist a single origin.