We are pleased to present The Slight Light, La Leve Luz, a solo exhibition by the Spanish artist Pablo Merchante at Verduyn in Moregem, Belgium. Pablo Merchante is a contemporary painter best known for his enigmatic and introspective quasi-abstract works, integrating floral motifs with synthetic materials such as wood, plastic, and cardboard, juxtaposing the organic with the industrial. The artist continues to explore the gestural origins of painting at the intersection of the representational and the abstract. In The Slight Light, La Leve Luz, Merchante delves into the nuanced transitions of the experience of light. As a native of Andalusia’s luminous coast, in which the blinding sun desaturates color and crafts an atmosphere through its sheer intensity, the light shifted when traveling to Madrid, encountering a denser and more opaque light where colors emerge with vivacity. Today, residing in Antwerp, Belgium, the Spanish painter finds himself enveloped in a light that is changing, silent, and subtly elegant. An important concept throughout Merchante’s artistic practice is the fluidity of pictorial creation; a serendipitous journey in which individual paintings interconnect and interreact with each other—or how a single sketch or motif can serve as an ongoing foundation due to the iterative nature of his creative process. His abstract compositions are nurtured by his background in classical music, where rhythm and consonance or harmony provide a lyrical quality to the sensibilities of life itself. In his latest works, the artist draws upon digital collages that blend diverse images, constructing spaces that verge on the logical while simultaneously evading it. Familiar yet unsettling spaces unfold, with flowers adding a layer of warmth and allure, as the background and interwoven planes craft complex and psychologically rich scenarios. The beauty and intrigue of these geographical transitions of light is a rather overlooked and mundane phenomenon that is being captured and made visible through the lens of Pablo Merchante’s eye and brush, transforming it into something extraordinary and utterly fascinating.