La Possibilità di un’Isola: Laura Gianetti, Matteo Peretti, Vettor Pisani, Sebastian Stumpf, Philip Topolovac
Opening 30.01 - 6 pm
From 30 January to 21 March 2026, Galleria Mario Iannelli presents the group exhibition “La Possibilità di un’Isola” (The Possibility of an Island), which explores the theme of the island as a symbolic space and a site of utopian projection.
The title is inspired by Michel Houellebecq’s novel “The Possibility of an Island” (2005), which—like the exhibition project—proposes an analysis of contemporary reality conceived as an archaeology of the present.
The exhibition opens with the work of Vettor Pisani, for whom the island represents a constant symbol of eternal return and a continuous alternation between catastrophe and rebirth, isolation and openness, memory and desire.
In Laura Gianetti’s works, the island takes shape as both body and landscape, assuming the form of an ecological warning and a possibility of arrest. Photography and sculpture offer snapshots from the abyss, in which the island’s emergence and submergence as a utopian horizon opens onto an awareness of the present.
Matteo Peretti addresses the theme of the island as a site of proliferation and ruin within contemporary language. Agglomerations of objects and consumer materials become microcosms suspended between accumulation and cultural and productive catastrophe.
Philip Topolovac’s works focus on mental projection toward real, imagined, or lost places. Sculptures and installations evoke individual and collective utopias, sedimented like archaeological remains and suspended between memory and desire, ultimately tending toward dissolution.
Finally, Sebastian Stumpf explores the island as a physical and performative experience. Through actions documented in photographs and videos, his work questions the unstable boundaries of landscape and body, imagining new possibilities of perception.
