Article date: Thursday, October 22, 2026
What survives of the past depends on what is preserved, how it is displayed, and the
meanings it is made to carry. In The Trace of Things, Dominique Fung’s first solo exhibition in Italy, presented by MASSIMODECARLO in Milan, paintings and drawings explore the relationship between material persistence and cultural memory. Objects and represented forms participate in the construction of history, their significance shifting as they move through different contexts of interpretation.
Article date: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Jesse Mockrin’s paintings begin with images that already carry the weight of art history. Drawing on Renaissance and Baroque painting, she isolates bodies, gestures, and fragments from canonical compositions, reconstructing them within new pictorial narratives.