10 de mar de 2026
New paintings exploring “Carnal Resonance” and Trans-Secular Figurative Abstraction, where bodies, desire, and collective experience emerge as layered fields of color and form.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SYD KROCHMALNY: A HARD AND SOFT POEM FOR THE NIGHT March 10 – April 26, 2026 Opening Reception: March 10, 6–8 PM The Locker Room 253 Church St, NY 10013
The Locker Room is pleased to present A Hard and Soft Poem for The Night, Argentine artist Syd Krochmalny’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Krochmalny—whose work has been presented at institutions including Museo Reina Sofía, the Guggenheim Museum, and Harvard University—arrives with a new body of paintings developed after a summer in Berlin. In the city’s clubs, he found a temporary suspension of bodily rhythms—schedules, transactions, productivity—less an escape than an interruption within a culture of perpetual availability and algorithmic visibility.
What emerged was a different kind of social space, where collective experience superseded individual identity. Krochmalny calls this Carnal Resonance—a working proposition in which desire becomes structure and painting becomes its material trace. He began painting during the days, not to document these nights, but to maintain the physical state they produced: a pressure that refused to dissipate, that demanded continuation through material means. “Every painting is proof that something survived the night,” Krochmalny writes. “And that something still wants to speak, even if it has no words.”
In this series, Krochmalny develops what he terms Trans-Secular Figurative Abstraction, a liminal zone where vegetal, animal, geometric, erotic, and totemic forms coexist. Individual forms refuse separation, creating a shared field where bodies layer, intersect, and dissolve. Viscous, layered oil paint is worked to register desire as it overflows. The work oscillates between figuration and abstraction, never settling into either.
“The night did not promise transcendence, yet something unmistakably sacred emerged—not as belief, but as intensity held in common. Someone might call it perdition; someone else, ecstasy. What mattered was the collective rhythm, the way the night folded in on itself, refusing closure.”
In an era dominated by immaterial circulation and accelerated exchange, these paintings insist on weight, drag, and duration—a counter-tempo in oil. The work arrives in New York carrying its own climate, not to translate the Berlin experience but simply to stand as evidence of something that “cannot be held onto, but also cannot be forgotten.”
EXHIBITION DETAILS: Syd Krochmalny: A Hard and Soft Poem for The Night
March 10 – April 26, 2026
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 10, 6–8 PM
GALLERY INFORMATION: The Locker Room | Wednesday–Sunday 12–6pm | www.thelockerroom.nyc
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Syd Krochmalny is an Argentine artist working across painting, installation, performance, and text. His work explores the intersections of power, desire, and language, examining how aesthetic form operates within contemporary systems of value and visibility. He is the founder of The Slip, an artist-run space in New York City focused on critical perspectives from the Global South. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences and completed postdoctoral studies at Columbia University.
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