In Sunrise, Jan Böhmer captures the quiet melancholy and beauty of awakening after a long night.
The female figure, bathed in shades of pink and turquoise, faces the new day with a gaze
suspended between exhaustion and hope. The cigarette hanging from her lips, the loose tank top,
and the jacket slipping off her shoulders evoke a fragile intimacy, the moment when night has not
fully ended and morning has only just begun.
The artist employs his signature alcohol-based black, dense and fluid, to define contours and
heighten the tension between lightness and weight. The contrast between the solid blacks and
the luminous pastels gives the work its emotional gravity.
Sunrise belongs to a series devoted to the melancholy of youth and the bittersweet feeling of
being alive, to that fleeting space where memories of the night blur into the promise of a new
beginning.