linking lightwave to lightwave and calling it, “painting”
Chati Coronel, Artist
February 20-23, 2025
Exhibition: ArtfairPH with Silverlens Gallery Manila
Featured Works:
Light Fountain 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 60"X72"
Device for Seeing 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 48"X60"
Arcturus 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 72"X60"
Eyes do not see. Eyes receive light and the brain pieces together a memory of light and we call it *seeing*. There is a secret place between the receiving of light and the memory of light and somewhere in that space is truth.
Chati Coronel (b. 1970, Manila; lives and works in Toronto) is a Filipino‑Canadian painter whose three‑decade practice probes the liminal territory between body and cosmos through a method she calls Figurative Spatialism. Layering atmospheric fields of colour within human silhouettes, Coronel treats the figure as a vessel through which metaphysical forces materialise. Her work has been the subject of more than twenty solo exhibitions and has appeared at Art Basel Hong Kong, Frieze Seoul, and The Armory Show, New York. Coronel’s paintings are held in private and corporate collections across Asia and North America. Guided by cosmological inquiry, she wields painting to recast primal myth as a blueprint for possible futures. Coronel is represented by Silverlens Galleries.
