Roland Hicks’ meticulous hyperrealist paintings magnify the insignificant: bubbles, chewing gum, all the overlooked detritus of our daily life. For his first solo show at Eleven, he concentrates on tumbleweeds of fluff. Found by the artist, these mini-sculptures of the ephemeral become on the canvases, alluring semi-abstract figures. The tense relationship between figuration and abstraction is a recurrent feature of Hicks’ work. Neither completely one nor the other, his paintings exist at the threshold between both. In this series, only the horizon line in the background allows us to situate the object in an illusionary three-dimensional space, and even this space is indeterminate. It’s a limbo of dark, neutral colours, whose unique function is to highlight the sculptural quality of the object represented.