Erica Mahinay's Rhythms Opens T293's New Rome Space

T293 inaugurates its new premises at Piazza del Catalone 8 in Rome with Rhythms, the fourth solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Erica Mahinay (born 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico). The show features twenty-four small-format works built through layered natural pigments, pressure, and erasure, creating porous surfaces where earlier process stages remain visible as residual traces. Mahinay, who studied at Kansas City Art Institute and Cranbrook Academy of Art, develops a practice centered on the body, gesture, and surface as a register of experience. The exhibition's title references composer Olivier Messiaen's non-linear rhythmic articulations, while the work also engages with anthropologist Kathleen Stewart's concept of "atmospheric attunement." Mahinay's approach echoes Helen Frankenthaler's staining technique but shifts focus from the original gesture to its material residue. The show runs from April 28 to June 2, 2026.