For me, ‘mute ‘painting’ poses a counterargument to the claim or concept that a painting is an ‘expression’; it expresses something.

Rather, for me, such an expression is a strategic political construct that suppresses the whole process of rejection, elimination, and muting those elements that, in the capacity of being inseparable and intricate parts of the process itself of such construction, could challenge the “meaning” that such a painting aims to achieve for the construct (painting) itself.