About the painting
A tall field of turquoise, and in it a single dark stroke. That is all this picture needs to build tension. The stroke sits in the upper third like a punctuation mark in a sentence made of colour. Imed Ben Tahar names silence as one of his themes. Here it becomes audible, because one tiny sound interrupts it. The format of 60 × 140 centimetres leads the eye from top to bottom until it arrives in the blue.
Description
Turquoise, tall and narrow, thins into blue toward the bottom. One dark stroke in the upper third draws the eye; everything else is surface and breath. At 60 × 140 cm the picture fits alcoves and the space beside doors, where wider formats have no room.
In the room
The painting hangs here at its real size, next to a 210 cm sofa and a person who is 175 cm tall.
