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Adverse Universe, 2026

Adverse Universe is a recent series of spray paintings developed in Kalman Pool’s studio in Buji Old Street, Shenzhen, on the edge of a dense urban village. The works do not directly depict this environment, but inherit its logic of compression, overlap, survival, and mutation.

Across the canvases, eyes, mouth-like organs, serrated structures, feather-like forms, translucent bodies, and energetic trajectories emerge as unstable life-forms generated under pressure. Through the speed, mist, and irreversibility of spray paint, the paintings construct living systems shaped by insomnia, anxiety, fear, anger, and the desire to continue creating despite instability.

Rather than escaping reality, Adverse Universe builds another survival system from within it: images shaped by chaos, yet continually insisting on growth.

The Panorama
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
220 x 750 cm

Apparitions of Dread
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Three Lives, Like a Dream
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Half Awake
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Latent Figures
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Crossfire Organism
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Before the Counterstrike
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Energy Barrage
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Gritted Teeth
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Hungry Ghost
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Hunger Gaze
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
166 x 200 cm

Haunted Waters
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
180 x 380 cm

224
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
220 x 400 cm

Profile in a Captive Dream
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
220 × 340 cm

OVERWATCH
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
180 x 350 cm

Stormfront
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
180 x 260 cm

411
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
220 x 360 cm

The Wizard of Oz
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
220 x 300 cm

Boundless Fire
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
180 x 365 cm

Radio Invasion
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
180 x 300 cm

Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
220 x 400 cm

4.4.4.4

Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
180 x 277 c

Ghost Town

Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
200 x 400 cm

Across the Abyssal Water - Node Extension
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas

166 x 200 cm

Across the Abyssal Water
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas

180 x 360 cm

Adverse Specimen: Raw Parasitism
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas
100 x 100 cm

The Fantasy
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas

166 x 200 cm

The Unease
Spray paint and mixed media on canvas

200 x 166 cm