Grace Weaver @ Galerie Max Hetzler

In Grace Weaver’s new paintings, Trash-Scapes, we see a few figures, some things scattered about the plane, minimal hints to places and locations: rubbly roadsides and barren parking garages. They are remembered places. Places, she recalls, ‘one has been to, which then go on to exist in the mind without being fully realized … memories the size of a postcard.’ The paintings are of a striking stillness and simplicity. Yet, it’s 2022 and their emblematic tenderness, is rather, as Weaver says, ‘seen through the desolate crumminess of Eliot’s Waste Land or Beckett’s Godot.