Gerard Almirall (Catalonia, Spain) lives and works between Barcelona and Bonn. His work unfolds through painting and research as an inquiry into perception, subjectivity, and the mechanisms of power that shape our human-tailored reality. He approaches painting not as depiction but as a way of questioning how seeing operates and how it constructs the self. Almirall’s practice is grounded in the idea of catastrophe: not as destruction but as a point of tension where forms, meanings, and certainties collapse. Through grids, gesture, and layers, he can expose the mechanisms that sustain vision and control. The painting is not constructed toward resolution but sustained in friction. Drawing from thinkers such as Deleuze, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Benjamin, his work explores the genealogy of the subject and the historical frameworks that define artistic production. He allows for spaces of affect and transformation, a practice that unfolds through doubt, interruption, and the suspension of knowledge. By reconfiguring the relation between image, matter, and gaze, Almirall approaches painting as a critical operation rather than a product. Each work opens a temporary field where perception becomes unstable, and where both the painter and the viewer are redefined in the act of looking.