Lyles & King is excited to present new paintings, video, and sculpture by Cato Ouyang, Fernanda Galvão, and Ren Light Pan. In dialogue, their respective practices reveal a common ethos of instability, transformation, and flow.

Cato Ouyang draws from art history, cinema, vernacular image-making, and urban planning schematics. Working across video and sculpture, they examine these sources while deliberately misusing the processes through which the work is made: craft, construction, photography. What emerges is a sustained reflection on unstable encounters between the body and the built environment, structures that appear authoritative but yield, under Ouyang's treatment, to contingency and friction.

Fernanda Galvão conceives of painting as a sensitive territory where natural forces absorb one another and continuously transform. Her new canvases propose a marine atmosphere displaced from its origins, threaded with violet and pink, suspended between geological and animal time. A whale becomes indistinguishable from living mineral mass; a shell cradles forms in mutation. Galvão's surfaces are sites of circulation, registering energies invisible yet active, carried by the perpetual movement of water.

Ren Light Pan's paintings move between devotion and dissolution. The imagery of these works emerges from photographs of studio actions. She partitions, cuts, and rearranges the images of her body and a series of objects in a delirium of interchangeable parts. The images float in diffuse pools of black ink soaked into muslin, holding vulnerability, intimacy, and violence in careful tension. Light, water, and ink are not merely the materials composing these paintings, they embody her work's generative instability.