Tinctura brings together the work of New York–based artist Dana Arbib and French artist Jean-Baptiste Besançon, pairing Arbib’s glass sculptural forms with Besançon’s gestural abstract paintings.
The exhibition stages an encounter between two distinct artistic languages that converge through shared concerns: pattern and gesture, translucence and light, fluidity and form.
Across both practices, colour is approached not as a fixed surface condition but as an immersive agent—closer to tincture than pigment—an infused hue that permeates the work from within. Arbib’s translucent forms made in Murano glass hold and refract light, while Besançon’s paintings register a parallel sensibility through processes of layering, accumulation, and dispersion of paint.
Positioned in dialogue, the works activate a spatial and perceptual exchange between solidity and dissolution, opacity and transparency, structure and flow.
