Pierre le Riche, Absorb, 2025
(detail 1)
Pierre le Riche, Absorb, 2025
(detail 2)
Pierre le Riche South African, b. 1986
45 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.
(Unframed)
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Absorb, 2025
Brightly colored figures hold one another in a close embrace. Their hands rest against faces and bodies, while overlapping arms and legs make it difficult to distinguish one figure from another. Set against a warm yellow background, the arrangement conveys both tenderness and physical intensity.
The title suggests how deeply another person can affect us. Through physical closeness, the figures express a relationship in which personal boundaries seem to disappear. Yet their contrasting colors allow each body to remain visible.
This tension between closeness and individuality gives the work its emotional character. An embrace can offer comfort, but it can also reveal how vulnerable people become when they allow someone else into their personal space.
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Pierre le Riche
Online exhibition + Artsy
Intersections Revisited
October 15 - November 28, 2026