Developed during a 2024 residency in Berlin, Seconds turn to minutes turn to seconds marks a significant shift in Joshua Charadia’s practice. Known for his precise, almost architectural paintings of industrial landscapes, Charadia here loosens his grip on representation, pushing into a more abstract and emotionally attuned space.
This series reflect the dislocation and introspection that can come from distance — from home, from routine, from the familiar passage of time. In Berlin, Charadia was surrounded by new rhythms and spatial contradictions: brutalist remnants, soft light, sharp shadows, moments of stillness interrupted by fragments of movement. The paintings that emerged are layered and nuanced, composed with a quiet tension between control and release.
Charadia’s hallmark technical rigour remains, but the works are marked by a greater openness — to materiality, to mood, to ambiguity. Architectural forms dissolve into fields of colour and texture. Light becomes a timekeeper. Surfaces fold and fracture like memory itself.
Seconds turn to minutes turn to seconds is not only a record of place, but of internal shift — a turning point in the artist’s journey, and a deepening of his singular visual language.
