EUQINOM Gallery : Mona Kuhn : A Love Affair

EUQINOM Gallery presents A Love Affair, its fourth exhibition with Mona Kuhn. The exhibition incorporates a new physique of labor from the sequence Kings Road, centered on the historic Schindler House, and marks the San Francisco debut of a sequence beforehand offered on the Lianzhou Museum of Photography (China), Hsinchu Image Museum (Taiwan), and Kunsthaus Göttingen (Germany).

The sequence has acquired significant institutional recognition. In 2025, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired twelve solarized images from Kings Road, affirming the significance of this physique of labor inside Kuhn’s evolving apply.

With A Love Affair, Kuhn offers a lyrical meditation on longing, reminiscence, and want. Interweaving chromogenic shade prints with solarized gelatin silver images, she constructs a visually layered physique of labor that explores images’s means to break down distinctions between previous and current, actuality and fiction.

At the middle of the exhibition are Kuhn’s solarized works, whose ethereal tonal inversions remodel acquainted areas into dreamlike psychological landscapes. Drawing on a photographic method traditionally related to Surrealism, these photos destabilize the medium’s documentary operate, permitting mild and shadow to turn into expressive brokers of ambiguity and emotional resonance. Through solarization, Kuhn creates spectral compositions that recommend presence by means of absence, evoking fleeting traces of intimacy and reminiscence.

Kuhn was instantly captivated by the Schindler House after transferring to Los Angeles in 2005. Beginning in 2016, she launched into Kings Road in earnest, immersing herself within the archives of architect Rudolph M. Schindler. There she encountered a letter signed by Schindler and addressed to an unnamed lover. This fragment of correspondence turned the conceptual catalyst for the sequence, permitting Kuhn to assemble a speculative visible narrative formed by absence, want, and imagined intimacy.

An enigmatic feminine figure recurs all through the images, transferring by means of the compositions like an apparition. Inspired by the nameless recipient of Schindler’s letter, she hovers between presence and disappearance, introducing a cinematic stress that animates the work. Her elusive presence transforms every picture right into a scene suspended between reminiscence and invention.

In A Love Affair, Kuhn extends her longstanding exploration of the physique, mild, and panorama into new conceptual territory. The ensuing images are much less about place than ambiance—areas charged with emotional residue, the place structure dissolves into shadow and fiction emerges by means of mild.

Mona Kuhn is an American artist, born in São Paulo, Brazil, of German descent, in 1969. Kuhn earned her BA from The Ohio State University earlier than furthering her research on the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an unbiased scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Kuhn’s works have been proven steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in method, topic, and goal. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic propelled her as some of the collectible modern artwork photographers. In 2021, Kuhn acquired The Stieglitz Award for her contributions to fine artwork images. Occasionally, Mona Kuhn teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; adopted by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions printed Kuhn’s Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson printed a profession retrospective titled Works. Kuhn’s most up-to-date publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum touring exhibition proven within the US, Europe and Asia.

Mona Kuhn’s work is in personal and public collections worldwide, together with The J. Paul Getty Museum, the LACMA, Photo Elysee in Lausanne, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Kiyosato Museum in Japan, and Lianzhou Photography Museum in China. Kuhn’s work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. Mona Kuhn lives in Los Angeles, and her works are represented by galleries within the US, Europe, and Asia.

Mona Kuhn : A Love Affair
May 28 – June 27, 2026
Opening reception with the artist: Saturday, May 30, 2026, 4–6pm
EUQINOM Gallery
49 Geary St UNIT 417
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.euqinomgallery.com