Luís Silva Carvalho, essentially a painter, has in recent years been developing a Post-Apocalyptic Aesthetic. His latest paintings, his most recent canvases, thrive on an explosion of colours, of every colour in the palette. In a certain sense, one could even speak of a kind of joy that permeates this latest body of work. Each painting contains within itself a strangeness, an ambiguity. Each emerging figure may have, depending on the viewer—or even for the same viewer contemplating these paintings—multiple interpretations. Is it this, or is it that? However much we may think, imbued with a rational impulse, the desire for meaning is cast upon these colours in order to see what is not there. Whether we wish it or not, we are all interpreters and translators. Luís Silva Carvalho is also an observer—the first observer—because he seeks to configure something, without knowing precisely what. (...)