Losing Yourself – Contemporary Figurative Painting

Loosing Yourself is a figurative painting by Abraham Aronovitch depicting a woman in her most stripped-down expression, rendered in turquoise-blue tones, leaning over a black sink and facing a mirror illuminated by a white light strip. Her reflection, in the same cold blue, appears slumped and fragmented against a pale gray background. The contrasts between the intense blues, the deep black of the furnishings, and the neutral grays of the space intensify the sense of loss and dissolution. The work evokes the gradual erasure of identity, psychological exhaustion, and the difficulty of recognizing oneself.

Losing Yourself, 2022
Acrylic, graphite point, cross-linked polyethylene tubing, LED

38.2 × 57.5 in

When the body no longer adheres to what it recognizes: the mirror becomes a zone of dissolution in which the subject is absorbed into its own reflection.

With Losing Yourself, Abraham Aronovitch continues his exploration of contemporary identity through the direct confrontation between the body and its image, within the Behind the Obvious series. The work is rooted in an inquiry into the fragility of self-perception, at the intersection of radical intimacy and self-exposure. Here, the figure appears to dissolve into the reflective surface, as if absorbed by the very image it attempts to stabilize.

Within this dispositif, the mirror offers no confirmation, but an unstable doubling. The blue silhouette—placed under tension through the use of technical elements (LED and polyethylene)—suggests a desynchronization between physical presence and mental perception. The painting allows a silent tension to surface between the loss of familiar reference points and a persistent need for recognition. Losing Yourself captures the moment when seeing oneself is no longer enough to find oneself, revealing the void that inhabits every face-to-face encounter with the self.

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