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PANTER XHITA

Description

A baby crocodile, wounded, held in a human hand. An animal that usually signifies power and survival appears here small, fragile, dependent. The wound sits exactly where the two bodies meet. The gesture of holding is never separate from the gesture of being affected. I came back to painting after months of performance and video. It wasn't the same return. Moving through other media changed the way I understand the craft: painting stopped being image-making and started becoming a way of holding certain states. I began asking myself a simple question. When is an image necessary? Not when it's beautiful, not when it succeeds but when it carries enough internal pressure to deserve existing. In a moment of visual overproduction, I'm no longer interested in making more images. I'm interested in making the ones that insist. These paintings are bodies at the threshold, not in collapse. They are not images of death , they are images of what remains when resistance is no longer the organizing force in the body. What persists when struggle recedes. I don't think of them as isolated works. Some function as close-ups, fragments of a larger world I am building. A field where certain motifs, animals, wounds and plants return and speak to each other. I'm interested in that logic, the whole and the fragment in dialogue.

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Panter Xhita

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Contract: 0x3e83...b53a
Token ID: 163

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