Javid Ilham The Last Fight (2023)

framed: 90h × 100w cm

Oil on canvas

This luminous celestial composition centers on a figure, portrayed in a state of ultimate physical and existential strain. His face is engulfed in a crimson tension, his fingers are twisted in the decisive strike - a final gesture in a game that holds the weight of life and death. The painting extracts a moment, a fragment of time, isolating it from a larger narrative, suspending it within an unresolved climax. Encoded with visual elements like billiard balls, wounds etched across the figure’s back, and tears rendered motionless, the work is charged with anticipation, its fabula unfolding through the final stroke of the cue, which determines the trajectory of the figure’s fate.