An Irish artist based in Brussels, Colm Mac Athlaoich’s paintings deal with ideas of materiality, process and perception. Inspired by his early career as a printmaker, illustrator and musician, his works sit between figuration and abstraction, exploring the space between. His latest exhibition—The solemn geography of human limits, on display at Dublin’s Glovebox—is based on photographs sourced from sports photography, specifically photo-finish images which capture the finishing stage of a race.