Belgian artist David DeWeerdt’s work centers on the innate condition of the human being and what it means to be endowed with the agony and ecstasy of bodily sensation, mind, and emotion. With his singular technique, DeWeerdt’s painting reveals the tenebrous inner landscapes of the body and soul, the textures of pain, sensuality, and heartbreak. His figures, often languishing in a blank void unmoored from time and space, function as conduits for the visceral, turbulent electricity of a tormented feeling or psychological state. They are stripped down to the bare studs of their humanity, bereft of external identifiers and emotional armor, devastatingly raw and alive.