Allan Gandhi (1989) is a visual artist based in São Paulo whose practice centers on painting and drawing. Since 2019, his works have been presented in group shows such as Ervas Daninhas (Quadra Galeria, curated by Julie Dumont); Sobre Cor (Espaço Alto, São Paulo, curated by Carol Carreteiro); Pequenas Pinturas III (Auroras, curated by Ricardo Kugelmas); and Labirinto e Vertigem (Kubik Gallery, Portugal). He has also held solo shows such as O Espelho (curated by Flora Rebollo, text by Thiago Barbalho), and a presentation of his work at Galeria Sardenberg in 2025 (curated by Ricardo Sardenberg).

The Sun (2025) stems from the artist’s desire to experiment and develop a form of representation that differs from others used to explore this same theme-image. Gandhi always seeks to understand what the work itself demands while searching for pictorial ways to approach subjects that interest him. In this case, the sun has become a transparent face floating in the sky in the middle of a storm.

In the words of Ricardo Sardenberg, “Allan Gandhi’s painting operates in a liminal zone between figuration and disfiguration, between the representational impulse and formal dissolution. (…) It is an approach in which painting asserts its material autonomy without relinquishing the suggestive power of the figure. The quick line, the short—almost instinctive—brushstroke does not constitute a style but rather a resistance to codification. (…) In this in-between space—between memory and fiction, between affect and sign—his painting acquires poetic density. This is not merely lyricism; it is also a poetics of instability, where the figure never settles, and the pictorial language itself is called upon to reinvent itself in each canvas.”