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Abel B Burger Artwork: Naja Naja Dear Cosmic Dancer
States Of Play Exhibition
About: Abel B Burger
Abel B. Burger
b. 1982, France. Lives and works in Port-Vendres, France.
Abel B. Burger is a self-taught artist whose practice combines drawing, painting, and writing. Their work explores the connections between dream, memory, and the sacred, in a sensitive dialogue between the visible and the invisible. Fragmented like the remnants of a forgotten language, their oeuvre is nourished by myths, history, and ancient traditions — from the Mediterranean to the Orient — and their research questions processes of intimate and spiritual transformation.
Burger describes their method as an "archaeology of the future": rather than digging into the past, they cover it and reactivate it. Earlier drawings become palimpsests, each layer of graphite, coloured pencil, and paint in dialogue with the one beneath. Paper and wood transform into living surfaces, where every painted gesture deposits memory while allowing the new to emerge.
"This is not a nostalgic return to origins, but a circulation of time. Old traces serve as fertile ground: they guide the gesture, nourish colour and form, and invite a continual reinvention of the past. The work unfolds through layering, erasure, and revelation, asserting that nothing is ever closed: neither time, nor form, nor the self. Painting over my own work is an acceptance that the work will mutate with lived experience, that the risk of covering generates beauty. The canvas becomes a temporal matrix where past and future meet, where the mortal and the permanent invert. Each gesture is at once deposit and prophecy, relic and anticipation. In this perspective, I am not a guardian of traces, but a builder of sediments. Painting becomes a living organism: remembering, altering, and regenerating itself."
— Abel B. Burger
Burger's work has been exhibited in solo shows across Europe and the United States, including Musée d'Art Moderne, Collioure (2021), Baull Gallery, Berlin (2020), Wondering People, London (2022), and Mason Fine Arts, Atlanta (2021), and is held in several public and museum collections.
Drinking From The Same River Exhibition
