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.

Across the five works, recurring motifs - a tree held steady through shifting fields, water settling into stillness, structures that channel flow toward its own vitality -  trace an unfolding process, each painting a stage in what might be called a personal rite: space claimed, ground prepared, correspondences gathered, energy raised, and finally, release.

mirrors, merging marks a turn in Catalina Africa's practice, following her previous exhibitions Shrine in the Shape of a Shadow and Earth Body Bukid. Where those bodies of work mapped the edges of the unfamiliar, this new show steps fully into surrender. Painting as tether, negotiation, and inventory of a self still becoming.

Words by Siddharta Perez

Multi-disciplinary artist Catalina Africa (b. 1988, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Baler, Philippines) considers shapeshifting her primary mode of expression. Working across painting, sound, sculpture, video, text, and performance, her work invokes the natural landscape, resembling spells, songs, prayers, and maps, as testimony to the Earth's mysteries. She cultivates a devotional practice to Spirit, transmuting Earth song in collaboration with the living land of Baler, where she lives with her husband and child.