Summer Day's Dream, At Night, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
38.2 × 51.2 in
When the mirror becomes the site of an irreconcilable gap between the experienced body and the luminous image of desire.
Summer Day’s Dream, At Night belongs to the Behind the Obvious series, in which Abraham Aronovitch uses the bathroom mirror as a device of inner projection. The work articulates a gap between the lived body and the imagined body: a female figure, seen from behind, stands at a distance from an idealized summer scene, visible only through the mirror. The painting thus superimposes a desired memory—associated with childhood and motherhood—and a nocturnal consciousness marked by bodily fragility.
In this face-to-face encounter, the mirror does not return a real image, but a mental projection. The fragile body remains anchored in the night, while the reflection opens onto a summer scene populated by blue silhouettes seated in the grass. What appears is neither a precise memory nor a concrete anticipation, but the tension of an intimate gap between desire and presence. The luminous image persists as an oneiric trace, stubbornly inaccessible to the present.

