More and More

Art historians frequently emphasise Silva Eher’s surrealist painting style, her distinctive world-building, and her dreamlike imagery. I fully agree: Eher’s work captures all these qualities, yet it also resonates with a profound sense of melancholy. This melancholy is subdued and composed. In her painting More and More, a solitary figure appears with a single, discrete tear tracing their cheek. There are no dramatic displays of emotion or streams of tears. The faces in the painting resemble masks – meticulously crafted and deliberate, as though to shield what lies beneath. Yet no mask is entirely unyielding; somewhere, that lone tear finds its escape.