Editorial edition
Four painters and the refraction of memory
Lena Bergström
Watercolor on cotton rag, 180 × 120 cm
The third in Bergström's Horizon series, reducing the sea-sky boundary to a single atmospheric wash. The work uses only two pigments: cerulean blue and bone black, diluted to near-transparency in twelve successive layers.
Kwame Asare
Resin, pigment, found objects on board, 150 × 120 cm
A palimpsest of objects recovered from Labadi Beach, Accra, suspended in tinted resin. The work refuses easy legibility: fragments surface and submerge as the viewer shifts position.
Yuki Tanaka
Mineral pigments (azurite, malachite, cinnabar) on handmade washi, 90 × 120 cm
Tanaka grinds each pigment by hand using a traditional Japanese suribachi mortar. The resulting granules catch light at different angles—the painting appears to breathe as the viewer moves.
Rosa Mendoza
Oil on linen, 28 × 35 cm
The smallest work in the exhibition and, for many viewers, the most devastating. Mendoza spent six months observing the same stretch of beach in Oaxaca, painting only what remained after the tide receded.