Top-down view of paint cans and squeeze bottles arranged on a speckled grey felt surface.
Top-down view of art supplies on a speckled floor, including paintbrushes of various sizes, a blue paint tray, a notebook, and torn paper.
An empty easel stands above a drop cloth arranged with paint tubes, brushes, and palettes on a wooden floor.
An empty canvas on an easel stands in an art studio, surrounded by painting tools laid out on a large grey rug.
A man crouching in a studio workspace, surrounded by art supplies and paintings, reaching toward brushes on the floor.
A man stands facing a large blank canvas on a wooden easel, reaching up with blurred hands to work on it.
A man works on a canvas on an easel.
A man wearing a black shirt paints a canvas while holding a paintbrush.
A person paints a yellow stroke onto a canvas on an easel.
A tattooed man with short hair kneels on a studio floor, unrolling large sheets of printed paper amid paint bottles and tools.
A tattooed man stands before an easel, carefully adjusting a canvas in bright indoor lighting.
A man smooths a collaged newspaper fragment onto a yellow-painted canvas.
A hand applies thick yellow paint with a brush to a textured canvas collage.
A person kneeling over a large canvas on the floor, applying black spray paint from cans onto a yellow and printed surface.
A man paints on a large canvas mounted on an easel in a studio, surrounded by paint bottles.
A man crouches in a bright gallery, holding a small brush, with paint bottles in the foreground and other people in the background.
A man wearing a dark long-sleeve shirt works on a large canvas mounted on a wooden easel in an indoor studio.
A man stands behind an easel painting a canvas in a brightly lit gallery space filled with visitors.
A man crouching in a studio, holding a spray can in front of a canvas on an easel, surrounded by paint cans and brushes on the floor.
A man holds a large canvas in an art studio with paintbrushes, containers, and tools scattered on the floor.
A man pours orange paint from a container above a canvas on the floor in a bright studio.
A man paints on a canvas on an easel in a brightly lit studio, while other people stand in the foreground.
A man crouching on a paint-splattered floor inside a gallery, turning the pages of an open book.
A man kneels on the floor, carefully applying white paint with his hands onto a large abstract canvas on an easel.
A motion-blurred figure of a person walks past an easel holding a brightly painted canvas in a studio.
A man stands in an art gallery with paintings on the wall, looking toward an easel surrounded by art supplies while several people gather around.
A man wearing a dark long-sleeve shirt paints on a canvas in an indoor setting while two other men stand in the background.
People gather in a bright art gallery with paintings on the walls and an easel with art supplies in the center.
People gather in a bright white gallery to view abstract paintings on the walls and an easel in the center.
A man seen from behind stands before a canvas on a wooden easel, painting with a brush in a bright gallery.
A man paints on a large yellow and black abstract canvas in an art gallery, with visitors and artworks in the background.
A person standing behind a wooden easel adjusts a canvas featuring an embedded newspaper clipping and abstract black brushstrokes in a gallery.
A man paints a red heart on a canvas resting on a wooden easel inside a gallery.
An abstract mixed-media painting featuring yellow, black, and orange splashes rests on a wooden easel in an art gallery.
A person holds a smartphone up to photograph a textured green and yellow artwork.
Mixed-media artwork featuring collage elements, newspaper text including 'BROADHURST', and thick applications of yellow, black, blue, and white paint.
A man uses a smartphone to photograph an abstract painting with thick layers of yellow, orange, black, and white paint.
A torn paper scrap featuring Spanish definitions for honestidad and honradez is overlaid on a textured surface covered in dripping red and white paint.
Mixed media artwork featuring layered newspaper clippings partially covered with thick yellow and black paint strokes.
Various paint-splattered brushes stand upright in a clear plastic container resting on a speckled floor.
People view art pieces in a brightly lit gallery, including a painting on an easel in the foreground.
Various paintbrushes in a plastic container, a bucket, and a blue paint roller tray on a speckled floor.
A woman and a man look towards an abstract painting on an easel in a bright room.
A man points to his head while standing next to a yellow abstract painting, with two women and another man looking at the artwork.
A wooden easel holding a canvas stands on a protective mat in an art gallery, with a man standing nearby and other people in the background.
Paint bottles in blue, yellow, and white stand in the foreground while a man and a woman stand by an easel in a bright studio.
A triptych painting with abstract figures, expressive brushstrokes, and the word CONEXIÓN displayed across the panels, mounted on a white gallery wall.
Four mixed-media paintings featuring expressive figures and abstract motifs hang in a grid on a white gallery wall.
A textured painting features a stylized head with a prominent, dripping red geometric shape across the lower face against a grey and blue background.
Mixed media artwork featuring textured abstract paint strokes, bold black letters spelling CON, and a layered Spanish book page with text and tree illustration.
Close-up of an expressive abstract painting featuring a heavily textured face rendered with thick brushstrokes in black, white, red, and grey.
Abstract painting with thick brushstrokes in shades of blue, green, and white on a textured canvas.
Close-up of an abstract painting featuring thick textured strokes of blue and white paint on a yellow and green canvas.
A woman in a black coat and hat stands in a brightly lit gallery, looking at abstract paintings hung on a white wall.
A blurred silhouette of a man in profile looks at a large expressive painting featuring abstract figures and bold splashes of red.
An abstract mixed-media painting featuring black, orange, and blue spray paint, text elements, and a stylized face on a white canvas.
An expressionistic painting of a stylized face with bold black outlines, prominent orange lips, and the text O-SCAR sprayed at the bottom.
Abstract painting with black, orange, green, and red drips and splashes across two vertical panels.
A woman speaks to a group of people gathered in a brightly lit art gallery, with paintings on the walls and a blank canvas on an easel.
A group of men and women stand in a bright, modern room, looking toward a blank canvas on an easel.
A man stands behind a desk using a Pioneer DJ controller, flanked by two large studio monitors, with abstract paintings on the white wall behind him.
A bearded man looks at abstract paintings on a white wall while talking with another person.

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Project

GAAP

A photographic record of GAAP’s exhibition opening and live painting performance at STUDIO 111 in Zurich, November 2023.

Type
Gallery
Location
Zürich, Switzerland
Project
2023
Published
12 August 2026

In November 2023, Gabriel Narváez Mora, known as GAAP, invited me to photograph his exhibition opening at STUDIO 111 in Zurich. Alongside the exhibition, he created a new painting live in front of the visitors, gradually building the work over the course of the evening.

I spent the evening moving between the exhibition, the audience and the painting process, photographing the quieter details as well as the moments when people gathered around to watch him work.

The resulting series is a simple record of the evening and of seeing a painting develop in real time, from the first materials on the floor to the finished work surrounded by the people who had watched it take shape.

Behind the camera

Dávid Hosszú

Monochrome studio portrait of a man with a beard and hair tied in a bun, looking downward against a plain background.

I approach long-term projects as open studies of identity, place, and human experience. I’m curious about the patterns we share and the details that make us unique, the way expressions, posture, environment, and movement can tell parts of our stories.

My work combines observation, technical experimentation, and a genuine interest in the people and contexts I photograph. Whether I’m working with portraits or with the surrounding world, I try to create images that are both aesthetically refined and connected to simple questions with complex answers: Where do we come from? How do we shape each other? And what traces do we leave behind?

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