Solutions marks a new development in Protey Temen’s ongoing exploration of systems of knowledge, abstraction, and visual language. While his earlier series Relative Explanations drew on the formal tools of scientific communication — annotation, numbering, diagrams, and schematic notation — to create abstract compositions that hovered between explanation and ambiguity, Solutions takes a more concrete turn.

In this new body of work, recurring elements from Temen’s established visual vocabulary are reorganised into distinct figurative forms. The familiar components — the numbers 1, 2, and 3, alongside his characteristic diagrammatic shapes — are no longer presented as open-ended systems of reference, but assembled into compositions that suggest recognisable figures, structures, or symbolic entities.

This shift introduces a compelling tension between abstraction and legibility. The language of analysis and rational order, previously used to evoke speculative or unresolved meaning, becomes a constructive tool for image-making itself. What once functioned as the vocabulary of explanation is here transformed into a compositional grammar.

Rather than abandoning the conceptual concerns of Relative Explanations, Solutions extends them: moving from systems that imply interpretation toward forms that appear to offer resolution — while still resisting fixed meaning. In Temen’s hands, the promise of a “solution” remains deliberately unstable: less an answer than a new arrangement of thought.