Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, currently presents Parataxis, an exhibition of new paintings by Grace Weaver. Depicted in domestic interiors, Weaver’s tall, sloping protagonists animate the small ceremonies of everyday life. Solitary figures and couples sit on low and high-backed chairs, hold amphorae, gather around tables, or raise a glass. Behind them, coloured stripes hint at panelled walls or doorways – abstract notations of domestic interiority that dissolve into painterly fields. These familiar scenes unfold with the measured cadence of ritual. Yet this ceremonial gravity is continually unsettled by a dry formal humour. Bodies are compressed, elongated, or made to obey archaic pictorial logic: two…