La luz del sol que se filtra a través de los árboles / そよぐ風、おだやかな午後に木漏れ日の場所で by Atsuki Fujimoto

Saenger Gallery presents in its main room the first solo exhibition in Mexico by Japanese artist Atsuki Fujimoto (Mie, 1997): "Sense of the wind, sunlight, serene place" (そよぐ風、おだやかな午後に木漏れ日の場所で), which brings together more than twenty previously unseen works. In them, various wildflowers—held in vases or growing by the edge of a river—are gathered on canvas, as if forming a small garden.

Atsuki works not only as an artist but also as a translator of the word komorebi (木漏れ日), a traditional Japanese concept that describes the interaction of light and shadow created by tree branches, the movement of the sun, and the comings and goings of the wind. It is from this idea that the exhibition takes its name.

In the world Atsuki creates, petals are peeled and woven into the canvas, hanging suspended by their stems and casting shadows over empty spaces. The wind moves through them, shaping the floral compositions and allowing the fragile elements of komorebi to inhabit the artworks. In this way, Atsuki reveals blossoming as a quiet process of light, where elements are born, grow, sway, and come to stillness—even when no one is watching.

By tearing, layering, and reassembling the surface of the canvas, Atsuki brings komorebi into the pictorial realm, where the linen takes on unusual volumes and textures that outline both outer landscapes of the countryside and inner ones—vases resting on a table, trees and flowers appearing before a viewer who inhabits them through the touch of their gaze: petals, leaves, insects, light, wind—all merged into a refuge where the fragility of each element shapes the rooms of time.

As a result, Atsuki Fujimoto transforms the exhibition space of "La luz del sol que se filtra a través de los árboles" into a garden of stillness and fullness, where the balance between presence and absence becomes an essential quality of beauty.

— Manuel Tuda