Extended Leave
Sometimes it is necessary to simply step away. Today, everything feels urgent, as we bear witness to the world’s absurdities and injustices. As a gallerist and writer, I personally feel a keen obligation to speak out at every turn. And yet, I also know that burnout is real — and that retreat, reflection, and wonder […]
Looking for Emoji
An artist walks into a fourth-wave coffee shop and asks for the usual. One person’s usual is another person’s surprise. There’s a storm brewing outside and the barista brings up the weather. This isn’t the artist’s place of work, but it’s becoming work for them. The artist is discussing the real world, not the conceptual […]
Folklore
“There was once a poor woodcutter who went into the forest to find food for his family. He looked for many hours, but it was winter and the forest was bare. He was about to turn back when he noticed an entrance to a small cave. ‘Perhaps I will find something of value inside,’ he […]
Treatise on the Care and Transport of Minor Lives
Entering this order, it’s difficult to clearly define its nature. The scale shifts, and reality seems to curl inward, leaving only what’s necessary. One feels as if one is in a transitional state, one that serves not for permanent exhibition, but for a brief presence “in between.” Time doesn’t unfold linearly here; rather, it thickens […]
CHRISTIAN STEIN | DEPOSITO
To mark its sixty years of activity, the Galleria Christian Stein is opening to the public its former industrial spaces on the outskirts of Milan (Via Vincenzo Monti 46, Pero/Milan). From April 10 to June 6, 2026, it will be possible to see a broad selection of works from the gallery’s storage facility, on permanent […]
Boy With Thorn
Open Thursday through Sunday 10am – 4pm Boy With Thorn is the inspection of a nagging pain, the moment of pause in search of relief. In the show’s initial reference, Spinario (a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze predating the 1160s) a young boy is sat on a stump, bent over, withdrawing a thorn from his heel. The […]
Background Layer
In Adobe Photoshop, the Background Layer is the default layer upon opening up the application; it is initially locked and protected, and alterations cannot be applied to it. A photographer is often a background layer to how we understand reality. An image can be static or erratic, demonstrative of a place or a person. Each […]
To Lure, To Hunt, To Catch
To Lure, to Hunt, to Catch is an exhibition by Valentino Vannini and Joanna Wierzbicka curated by Sophie Nowakowska that explores power, seduction, and bodily display. Drawing on animal tails and historical garments such as codpieces, the exhibition explores how bodies communicate dominance, vulnerability, and desire, and how function becomes exaggeration. Elements such as padding, […]
If you feel me, I am you
If you feel me, I am you is less a title than a statement. It is an invitation to empathy that directly addresses the viewer, suggesting that recognition is born from shared experience: “If you understand what I am talking about, it is because it has happened to you as well.” In her first solo […]
Friends Looking at Friends
“Friends Looking at Friends” presents new portraits of Breslin’s peers and family members, interspersed with delicate, playful still lifes. Her practice—exploring identity, home, motherhood, and connection—has adopted a more considered approach in recent years. After five years in New York and Mexico City, Breslin returned to London in 2019, reconnecting with her childhood home. She […]