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RU artist-in-residence Shony Rivnay in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Shony’s practice centers on painting as an inquiry, exploring how time and experiences manifest in abstract processes. Working primarily with acrylic and oil on canvas, his compositions develop through a meditative experience, ensuring sustained attention to gesture and spatial relationships. Rivnay’s painting process is non-hierarchical; canvases are placed on the ground as he moves around them, shifting orientation and pace. Multiple paintings are worked on simultaneously, influencing one another while an internal coherence appears. Orientation is never predetermined, enabling elements to float, collide, and settle, and producing dynamic compositions. His recent body of work cultivates a visual language that operates between structure and intuition, embracing memory and the unknown as generative forces. Trial and error are central to his practice, functioning as productive tools that open formal possibilities.
