Francis Offman’s works consist of canvases, not mounted on stretchers, with irregular contours, featuring paintings that emerge from the associations of sections of vivid, flat, uniform colors, and collage zones made with scraps of paper – salvaged from bread wrappers or shoeboxes – which enter the composition like rips or wounds. An encounter that only on occasion makes elements emerge that can be traced to the real: a dry tree, a mountain, water, earth, or sky. Offman’s pieces are free compositions that imply fragile references to a faraway world (Africa and Rwanda, where the artist spent some of his childhood) and its customs, a traumatic memory, and an uncertain identity; jagged, dynamic spaces that cannot give rise to an integral landscape.