The paintings of the German-Greek artist Aris Kalaizis occupy the space between fiction and fact, motion and inertia. With a masterly brush, he creates scenarios where the subjects play enigmatically entwined roles and the world of shadows lives in defiant coexistence with light. Kalaizis's creative process follows more that of a screenplay writer, where a landscape or setting, as captured concisely by a photograph, provides the spark for a gradually evolving script. The inextricable intimacy between setting and characters climaxes precisely at the moment rendered by the artist, which he describes as when characters receive their home . If viewed with an intuitive eye, the seeming absurdity of his paintings reveals itself as the ambiguity of existence - life and death, dream and reality - portrayed with disturbing ferocity and eerie beauty.