DOMINIQUE FUNG – THE TRACE OF THINGS

Posted on 2026-10-26

The Trace of Things, is the first solo exhibition in Italy by Dominique Fung, a Canadian artist of Chinese descent. The exhibition brings together a new body of work – paintings, jewellery boxes, and, shown for the first time, her drawings. A trace is what remains after the thing itself is gone: the imprint of a leaf in stone, the outline of a wing, the mark a hand leaves on a page. Each of these works is, in its own way, a trace.

Opposite – Unearthed from Water, 2026

Exhibition runs through till November 18th, 2026

MASSIMODECARLO
Viale Lombardia 17
20131 Milan
Italy

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

GRAHAM LITTLE

Posted on 2026-10-26

Working delicately with gouache on paper, Little constructs intricate paintings from carefully staged arrangements assembled in his studio using cut paper, found objects gathered from the streets around his home, friends posing as models and, occasionally, imagery drawn from books in his personal collection. Conceived over months – and often years – while Little’s interest in perceived beauty cannot be underplayed, his compositions are often characterised by the psychological blemishes that beauty cannot mask: distraction, disinterest and distance, emptiness cloaked in aesthetic sheen. As Little writes, ‘This show is less of a looking at beauty and more of a dismantling and looking around it.’

Opposite – Untitled (Pearl), 2025

Exhibition runs through till November 14th, 2026

Alison Jacques
22 Cork Street
W1S 3NG
London

alisonjacques.com

  

FIRENZE LAI – NORTH AND TRUE NORTH

Posted on 2026-10-26

The work of Firenze Lai explores the social, political and spatial subtexts that shape individual and collective psyches across both physical and virtual worlds. Bringing together a new series of paintings and works on paper made in her London studio, ‘North and True North’ is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The figures that populate Lai’s canvases are often anonymous – sometimes even faceless – and situated within indeterminate environments that speak to the formless expanses of online existence. These bodies appear to merge with themselves or one another, become absorbed into larger systems or circuits, fragment, duplicate and drift between realms. Eschewing individual facial expressions in favour of symbolic, recognisable gestures, Lai seeks to understand her subjects’ realities through posture and movement, tracing how body language continually evolves in relation to how we live.

Opposite – Slow Sand, 2025

Exhibition runs through till November 14th, 2026

White Cube
25-26 Mason’s Yard
SW1Y 6BU
London

www.whitecube.com

  

LEE BAE – ATTENDING

Posted on 2026-10-19

Titled Attending, the exhibition advances the concept of waiting, or gidarim in Korean, which can be understood as an action, an entire emotional experience of anticipating something or someone you deeply care about. Lee Bae chose Attending as the exhibition’s title to offer a fresh perspective on the attitude of waiting, a theme that has long defined his work. Attending means being fully present in the moment while awaiting something that has yet to arrive. It involves paying attention, listening closely, and focusing on time, space, and one’s own existence.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through till December 19th, 2026

Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne
75003
Paris

www.perrotin.com

  

JONATHAN GARDNER – THE STUDIO

Posted on 2026-10-19

The Studio is a solo exhibition by Jonathan Gardner, the American painter whose stylised, dreamlike interiors turn the oldest subjects in art – the nude, the still life, the landscape – into invented scenes, at once intimate and archetypal. For his exhibition at the gallery’s London space, Gardner takes the artist’s studio as his subject: rooms within rooms, paintings within paintings, built in equal parts from memory, imagination and art history.

Opposite – Imaginary Reclining Nude, 2026

Exhibition runs through till December 18th, 2026

MASSIMODECARLO
16 Clifford Street
W1S 3RG
London

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

NICK MAUSS – IN THIS TIME

Posted on 2026-10-19

For this exhibition, Mauss focuses his process of reverse-painting mirrors to the scale of the viewer’s gaze, folded onto closed volumes that appear to be devices for reflecting oblique slivers of space and social performance. Painted “derriere le miroir”, these objects stand in dialogue with a series of works in etched, double-dyed silk-velvet that are made through a process of chemical subtraction, by which traces of figures and painted marks are literally “unwoven” into the textile. Among these reverse-painted and “devoured” motifs, Mauss introduces hollow, wall-mounted figural heads in sheet-aluminum.
The fragile negative molds are formed on enlarged replicas of modernist-archaic heads created in the 1920s by Eyre de Lanux, an artist, writer, and designer whose work has figured in several of Mauss’ previous exhibitions, and who returns here, in estranged form, to Paris, where she lived and worked with Eileen Gray and Evelyn Wyld, among others.

Opposite – As if I Told You, 2026

Exhibition runs through till November 21st, 2026

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

www.crousel.com