Silverlens is honored to present mirrors, merging, an exhibition of new works by Catalina Africa, on view from 25 July through 22 August 2026. mirrors, merging is Catalina Africa's new body of paintings that step into the innerscape of a life in transition. The world is seen and called anew, as Catalina precipitates otherworldly territories into works that test flow forms, dissolution, and the slow collapse of inner terrain into the landscape it mirrors. Five paintings in mirrors, merging are the steles that surround this mystery, registering a painter's devotional process in thresholds where shape gathers form.

Ayka Go departs from the creased, folded, and worn paper forms that have long defined her practice, turning instead to the natural world as a lens through which to contemplate transformation. During a period of relative quietude in 2025, she cultivated a garden at her studio, where close observation of butterflies, insects, and seasonal change deepened her awareness of cycles of growth, decay, and renewal.

SALON takes its title from both the salon-style hang and the domestic interior: two modes of display built on proximity, accumulation, and personal taste. Bringing together works by artists who transform familiar materials and everyday forms, the exhibition considers what happens when distinctions between art and decoration, utility and ornament, begin to dissolve.

Cochineal, itself derived from a non-human body, constitutes the corporeal throughline of “Soft Perimeter.” Argote imagines the dye as “almost like a body,” behaving similarly to “all kinds of secretions, like hormones and different chemicals, which shift and change our mood.”