Save The Leaders, 2024
Acrylic, Graphite Point
51.2 x 38.2 in
When the mirror opens onto a fractured stage, the image of authority confronts the fragility of the structures that sustain it.
Save The Leaders belongs to the Behind the Obvious series, in which Abraham Aronovitch transforms the bathroom mirror into a device of vision: a surface that distances reality in order to reveal its social constructions. Facing the mirror, a figure observes a fragmented scene of ruins in which the image of authority is reenacted. The work questions the responsibility of power and the way politics presents itself as a staged performance within structures that remain inherently vulnerable.
Here, the reflection does not return a face, but a theatre in decomposition. Amid the ruins, suited leaders maintain a posture of stability and controlled language, while a boxer rises as the raw icon of a hollow victory. Held at a distance by the reflective surface, the gaze of the blue figure points to a tension between those who govern and those who perform. Beneath the representation of authority, the painting allows the unsettling fragility of both the setting and its occupants to surface.

