Dr. Zirak Marker’s paintings emerge from a place where inner weather meets outer landscape. As a psychiatrist, Marker carries the unseen weight of the emotional worlds entrusted to him the traumas, ruptures, and unspoken griefs of the patients he counsels. These works surface as quiet memoirs of that psychological labour, translating the turbulence of human suffering into meditative skies, drifting seas, towering mountains, and fields of dissolving colour.

 

The series “Duende” on display are immense abstracted visuals bearing the anchor of boats as a metaphor, perhaps to the artist's own presence within the picture frame. The extending mountains, dissolving horizons, and the elusive colours, bring about a distant yet strong resonance to the Baroque paintings. A reference that could be prominently absorbed through the aesthetics of church paintings, hinting at the glowing illuminations ushering the departure of pain with the touch of light. 

 

The exhibition’s title, When Light Touches, captures the core of Marker’s practice: the belief that illumination, whether emotional or literal, can soften what hurts, warm what has gone cold, and reveal the possibility of healing even in the darkest crevices. His accompanying poem distils this ethos with a rare clarity, reminding us that light does not erase the shadow; it gives it context, contour, and a way forward.