MONA KUHN
A Love Affair
May 28 – June 27, 2026
Opening reception with the artist: Saturday, May 30, 2026, 4–6pm

EUQINOM Gallery is pleased to present A Love Affair, its fourth exhibition with Mona Kuhn. The exhibition features a new body of work from the series Kings Road, centered on the historic Schindler House, and marks the San Francisco debut of a series previously presented at the Lianzhou Museum of Photography (China), Hsinchu Image Museum (Taiwan), and Kunsthaus Göttingen (Germany). 

The series has received significant institutional recognition. In 2025, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired twelve solarized photographs from Kings Road, affirming the importance of this body of work within Kuhn’s evolving practice.

With A Love Affair, Kuhn offers a lyrical meditation on longing, memory, and desire. Interweaving chromogenic color prints with solarized gelatin silver photographs, she constructs a visually layered body of work that explores photography’s ability to collapse distinctions between past and present, reality and fiction.

At the center of the exhibition are Kuhn’s solarized works, whose ethereal tonal inversions transform familiar spaces into dreamlike psychological landscapes. Drawing on a photographic technique historically associated with Surrealism, these images destabilize the medium’s documentary function, allowing light and shadow to become expressive agents of ambiguity and emotional resonance. Through solarization, Kuhn creates spectral compositions that suggest presence through absence, evoking fleeting traces of intimacy and memory.

MONA KUHN
Spectral, 2022
Solarized gelatin silver print
20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Framed 22.75 x 17.75 in
Variation of 12

MONA KUHN
Realm, 2022
Solarized gelatin silver print
20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Framed 22.75 x 17.75 in
Variation of 12

Kuhn was immediately captivated by the Schindler House after moving to Los Angeles in 2005. Beginning in 2016, she embarked on Kings Road in earnest, immersing herself in 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 became the conceptual catalyst for the series, allowing Kuhn to construct a speculative visual narrative shaped by absence, desire, and imagined intimacy.

An enigmatic female figure recurs throughout the photographs, moving through the compositions like an apparition. Inspired by the anonymous recipient of Schindler’s letter, she hovers between presence and disappearance, introducing a cinematic tension that animates the work. Her elusive presence transforms each image into a scene suspended between memory and invention.

In A Love Affair, Kuhn extends her longstanding exploration of the body, light, and landscape into new conceptual territory. The resulting photographs are less about place than atmosphere—spaces charged with emotional residue, where architecture dissolves into shadow and fiction emerges through light.

MONA KUHN
Presence, 2022
Solarized gelatin silver print
20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Framed 22.75 x 17.75 in
Variation of 12

MONA KUHN
Serene, 2022
Solarized gelatin silver print
20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Framed 22.75 x 17.75 in
Variation of 12

MONA KUHN
Portrait Revealed, 2022
Solarized gelatin silver print
20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Framed 22.75 x 17.75 in
Variation of 12

MONA KUHN
Pulse, 2022
Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print
40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Framed 42 x 32 in
Edition of 12

MONA KUHN
Ava, 2022
Solarized gelatin silver print
20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Framed 22.75 x 17.75 in
Variation of 12

MONA KUHN
Latent, 2022,
Solarized gelatin silver print
20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Framed 22.75 x 17.75 in
Variation of 12

MONA KUHN
Interleaving, 2022
Solarized gelatin silver print
20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Framed 22.75 x 17.75 in
Variation of 12