Locus Incognitus

On view now: Locus Incognitus, an exhibition that brings together artists from diverse generations to meditate on hidden, imagined, and elusive places — terrains that resist mapping, yet persist in memory and vision. These are not conventional landscapes, but spaces of projection and return, shaped as much by longing as by observation.

Quayola, Storm #01_K22M1_02792, 2022

Ranging across drawing, collage, photography, sculpture, and digital forms, the works unfold as fragments of an uncharted atlas — personal geographies where architecture dissolves into dream, and topography becomes narrative. Each work reveals a place that may not exist, yet insists on being seen — a site where the act of looking becomes a form of passage into the unknown.

Lisa Ivory, In The Garden of The Martyrs, 2025; Lisa Ivory, Bread and Honey, 2025; Lisa Ivory, Small Talk, 2025.

Locus Incognitus takes the viewer on a journey permeating the entire exhibition space, beginning with fantastical and dream-like maps and landscapes, that become increasingly unsettling as one approaches the main viewing room, where seemingly joyous yet sinister scenes inspired by medieval bestiaries and books of hours are in dialogue with works drawing from Dante, Goya, and Friedrich, as well as cinema and contemporary folklore.

Ubaldo Bartolini, Andare per l’erbe, 1989

In the second room, the focus shifts to edifices and structures, featuring images that range from historical to imaginary, exploring ambiguities within the built environment and between nature and architecture.

Stefano di Stasio, Untitled, 2025

With a constellation of elusive sites and shifting perspectives, Locus Incognitus opens pathways between practices and sensibilities, revealing how disparate visions can converge to form a deeper, more layered understanding of place, memory, and imagination.

Featured Artists:

Ubaldo Bartolini
Tom Bull

Henri Chopin

Stefano Di Stasio

Lisa Ivory
Robert Longo

Cyrus Mahboubian
Hormazd Narielwalla
Tom Poeet
Thiago Rocha Pitta
Dima Srouji

John Stezaker
David Tremlett
Atalanta Xanthe
Hugo Wilson
Quayola

Exhibition Information
Locus Incognitus
Curated by Piero Tomassoni
On view until October 2025
Artvisor, Mayfair, London

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