RAINRAIN is pleased to present Reading About War, a solo exhibition by New York–based artist and writer Henry Chapman. Comprising a new body of paintings, the exhibition reflects on the dissonance between private life and public catastrophe, created as Chapman settled into a new home with his wife while witnessing the ongoing destruction in Gaza. Set against broader global conditions of violence, complicity, and moral reckoning, these works hold together the contradictions of intimacy and upheaval, daily routine and political rupture—echoing, in spirit, T.J. Clark’s post-9/11 reading of Poussin’s Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake as a metaphor for the modern experience of catastrophe. As a person, a Jewish person, Chapman turns to image-making not to deliver answers but to remain with the tension of identity, responsibility, and silence.

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