Patrik Hábl’s exhibition Eyes Between Mountains is a visual and spiritual confrontation between the monumentality of painting and the intimacy of the female gaze. Hábl accentuates the female face as a universal sign, the face of a pilgrim, a revelation, the bearer of memory, emotion and silence. The eyes of the women emerge from the monochromatic structures as a conscious, silent presence. They do not speak, but they see and persist. The series of female faces has been several years in the making and is composed in one coherent image made up of individual pixels that combine to form a monumental mosaic, grid or network, where each face represents one of the stones of a larger whole. Limited to greys, blacks and graphite tones, the palette is not about absence, but about depth –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ the layers of experience, the erosive effect of memory, space for concentration. In the industrial environment of the Turbine Hall, the canvases spill out into space, becoming landscape, architecture, the painting itself, and in the topography of emotion, views can function as sources and canvases as horizons, but also vice versa. Hábl generously dissolves the boundaries of traditional painting. The space ceases to be merely an exhibition hall; it becomes a painting that we enter. The visitor is part of it, a kind of figure in a landscape of faces whose gaze silently, relentlessly and continuously follows the visitor.