Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining by Haruna Shinagawa: Curated by Christian Barragán at Main Room

SAENGER GALERÍA is pleased to present the first individual exhibition of the Japanese artist Haruna Shinagawa in Mexico, entitled Every cloud has a silver lining. This exhibition is housed in the Main Room of the gallery and is made up of a new and extensive series of paintings made especially for this occasion during the artist's stay in Mexico City.

Shinagawa's work has a unique formal, technical and conceptual inventiveness, her work expands the possibilities of abstraction by extracting the expressive potential of materials and encourages the emergence of different narrative events, from historical and contemporary
references of painting (Monet, Frankenthaler, Richter, Ufan, De la Cruz), to the history of the material itself and the thoughtful use of negative space, determining elements in the constitution of the work.

For this exhibition, Shinagawa has continued her ongoing series of "windows and curtains" paintings that she began in 2016, compositions of various sizes and colors in which she employs dense layers of acrylic on canvas that she subsequently removes, folds, and partially fragments on
the white surface. These works are characterized by the complex manipulation of the pictorial matter that, however, results in a subtle appearance and a presence that is both powerful and discreet. Likewise, Shinagawa's painting is unique for the use of vibrant colors, often monochrome in metallic colors due to their proximity to the virtual and industrial world, or combined in various ways that evoke diffused light in the landscape, as was the case in an impressionistic sunset, or the breaking and fragmentation of an image, glitch, on a digital screen today.

With this new body of work, Shinagawa continues her exploration of painting form and process, including folding and rearranging acrylic into increasingly complex compositions that push the limits of the physicality of painting. Added to this, the brilliance of color and the fragmentation of
matter operate as tools to address the frictions of contemporary visual communication.