SAUL JOSÂF
PRELUDE

KÖNIG MEXICO CITY
CALLE YAUTEPEC 111, COL. CONDESA, ALCADIA, CUAUHTÉMOC, 06140 CDMX

5 SEPTEMBER – 17 OCTOBER 2025

KÖNIG MEXICO CITY is pleased to present the solo exhibition PRELUDE by Saul Josâf.

In Josâf´s work, painting emerges in the space between control and accident, intuition and technique. For him, to paint is to enter a state of heightened alert, where time feels dislocated and the unexpected is welcomed. Speed at times part of his method is not impulse, but strategy: an athletic gesture where body and thought react to risk in unison. This keeps him close to an intuitive sense of time, one that collaborates with error and resists closure.

Saul Josâf, EN LO LEJOS LADRAN LOS PERROS, 2025

Often beginning with photographic sources, Josâf distorts and destabilizes them, shifting images into a pre-appearance, a suspended state inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s notion of the virtual, where forms exist before they fully materialize. Here, meaning remains open, fluid, and in transit.

Central to his process is the stain: accident, gesture, or interruption that disrupts fixed interpretation and invites tactile logic. His engagement with cinema, especially the fragmented, sensorial works of Marguerite Duras, Maya Deren, and Philippe Grandrieux, further shapes this approach.

For KÖNIG MEXICO CITY, Josâf extends his exploration of the intersections between material, image, and perception. The gallery’s architecture becomes an active counterpart to the paintings, echoing their tensions between intimacy and openness, stillness and velocity.

Rather than presenting a linear narrative, these works unfold as fragments and enchantments. Time is not a line but a fold; images appear and unravel at once, leaving each painting breathing in its own rhythm, never finished, always becoming. 

FEATURED ARTIST

SAUL JOSÂF
Saul Josâf, a painter and social anthropologist from Mexico City, builds a constant pictorial drift in his works, where he presents, from a figurative perspective, his vision of painting as a cartography of affections and intensities.

He explores themes such as intimacy, loneliness, and anguish, embodying them in scenes that depict everyday spaces and objects under the tension of delirium and revelation. In his universe, the elements of space and matter transform, creating situations in which, much like in the dreamlike realm, time and memory are altered and distorted, immersing the viewer in states of confusion or clarity. This cosm...
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