Aurora brings together the works of Kolja Kärtner Sainz, Manuel Tainha, and Suyi Xu, three artists whose practices interrogate the spatial, material, and conceptual dimensions of abstraction. Through distinct methodologies—gesture, embroidery, and architectural precision—each artist expands the role of line beyond a mere compositional device, instead using it as a conduit for perception, structure, and movement.

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Kolja Kärtner Sainz’s paintings pulse with a frenetic energy, their layered networks of oil and ink oscillating between fluid spontaneity and meticulous control. His lines do not simply delineate form; they disassemble and reconstruct space, enacting a visual turbulence that resists stasis. The result is an abstraction that feels kinetic—always shifting, always in flux. In contrast, Manuel Tainha’s approach embraces slowness and tactility. Working with embroidery on velvet, he transforms thread into a form of mark-making, where each stitch functions as both an act of inscription and an erasure of surface. His compositions exist on the threshold between presence and absence, their spectral imagery suggesting memory, erosion, and the quiet persistence of material traces. Meanwhile, Suyi Xu brings an architectural sensibility, treating line as both structural and symbolic. Her compositions recall the meticulous logic of blueprints or sacred geometry, rendering space as something both measured and otherworldly, precise yet ephemeral. Xu’s works seem to suggest that abstraction need not abandon structure; rather, it can use it as a scaffold for something altogether more elusive. 

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Together, Kärtner Sainz, Tainha, and Xu approach abstraction as an open-ended inquiry—one that transcends medium and form. Aurora considers the line not as a fixed boundary but as an evolving threshold, a site of both rupture and possibility.