George Rouy, ‘Maelstrom’ at Peres Projects

A maelstrom is a powerful whirlpool in the sea or in a river, and also connotes a situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil. As it happens it also the title of painter George Rouy’s current solo outing at Berlin’s Peres Projects, a show consisting of works that in the words of the gallery “behave visually as the word does verbally and in meaning; with dynamism, force, and unease – resonating as the world does now.”