Stop by tonight during Tribeca Art Night to see Sofia Cacciapaglia: Apparizione!
“Women have always fascinated me in my work because these women are symbolic — eternal, ancestral, not tied to any specific time or era, yet speaking across all times. It’s not that I don’t want to tell my own story as a woman, but my work starts from me to speak to everyone. This is also why I choose not to give titles: I believe that the language of painting is a poetic language that stands on its own and has nothing to do with words.” @sofiacacciapaglia@emmalucillesaperstein
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In her paintings, Cacciapaglia seeks lightness, harmony, the softness of shapes and colours, but above all mystery and silent contemplation. Apart from canvas, her favorite materials are simple ones such as cardboard and wrapping paper, because of their material structure and their neutral background color which gives the work a poetic vibration.
Apparizione is on view through June 27, 2026.
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“The installation unveils an anatomized universe of alphanumeric code.”
Excerpt from Gwendolyn Collaço’s essay Carpet Craft: Mapping the Coded Universe in Faig Ahmed’s The Attention.
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The Azerbaijan Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia is now officially open to the public.
Make sure to visit while Faig Ahmed is at the Pavilion, for a chance to experience the works through the artist’s own perspective.
Find us facing one of the main entrances to the Arsenale, located at Campo della Tana, Castello 2124/A–2125, Venice.
If you are entering through the Campo della Tana side of the Arsenale, you’ll find the Pavilion directly nearby.
Open daily from 11 AM — 7 PM (summer hours). Closed on Mondays, except 11 May, 1 June, 7 July, and 16 November.
We look forward to welcoming you to The Attention, a solo presentation by Faig Ahmed.
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From concept to installation.
From paper to pavilion.
The Attention
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Venice, 2026 @labiennale
📍Campo della Tana, Castello 2124/A–2125, Venice, Italy
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From concept to installation.
From paper to pavilion.
The Attention
Azerbaijan Pavilion @azerbaijan.pavilion.venice
Venice, 2026 @labiennale
📍Campo della Tana, Castello 2124/A–2125, Venice, Italy
#FaigAhmed #FaigAhmedStudio #TheAttention #AzerbaijanPavilion #LaBiennaleDiVenezia
The word “re-creation” suggests that play is a regenerative practice. @thehoopcycle invites us to embody — and recreate — the choreography of ancient games in the present.
HOOPcycle Milano is a MesoAmerican + contemporary basketball court on wheels designed for and in Italy. Created by architect @segal_rafi and artist @marisa_jahn , @thehoopcycle Milano will be stewarded by @corvettostreetbasket , an inclusive out-of-school time, inclusive basketball and leadership development non-profit dedicated to youth in Corvetto Milan, a historically underserved neighborhood.
HOOPcycle premiered at Design Week Milano (Salone) in partnership with the City of Milano (@comune_milano ) and was fabricated by @ilvespaio.eu@workbikegs
Support from Dole Italia
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5 days until the doors open to “The Attention”, a solo presentation by Faig Ahmed at the Azerbaijan Pavilion, 61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia.
The countdown begins.
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Repost @solaolulode So proud to share some images of my painting Eternal Light up at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art as part of the exhibition Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art. A momentous exhibition which opened in January curated by Kevin D. Dumouchelle and Serubiri Moses I’m proud to be part of. The exhibition runs until August 23, 2026.
Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Photos by Brad Simpson, 2026
Eternal Light
2020
Ink, acrylic and wax on canvas
210 X 150 cm
“The carpet becomes a vehicle for comprehending the cosmos.”
— Gwendolyn Collaço, Carpet Craft: Mapping the Coded Universe in Faig Ahmed’s The Attention
“The Attention”
Azerbaijan Pavilion @azerbaijan.pavilion.venice
61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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Curated by Gwendolyn Collaço
Public opening: 9 May 2026
Location: Arsenale, Campo della Tana, Castello 2124/A–2125, Venice
Image courtesy of Faig Ahmed Studio.
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Affresco Su Cartone, 2026 by Sofia Cacciapaglia
Opening Tomorrow, April 30th, 6-8pm: Sofia Cacciapaglia: Apparizione, on view through June 27.
Cacciapaglia’s women are unusual, they are phenomena, they are other-worldly, and they are dramatically visible. They dance, they gossip, they whisper, they gesture, they lounge, they rest, and they ponder. They are wise and omnipotent apparitions. But beyond the figures themselves, the newer landscape works in the exhibition create the context and set the scene, becoming the site of apparition, not unlike the poppy fields in the Wizard of Oz, and they are often painted on cardboard. @emmalucillesaperstein@sofiacacciapaglia
Acrylic on cardboard
53 1/8 x 90 1/2 in
135 x 230 cm
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Opening April 30th ~ Sofia Cacciapaglia: Apparizione
The women in Sofia Cacciapaglia’s paintings appear with an immediacy—belonging both to every era and to none, like an apparition of an angel or spirit. In her practice, these women call both to each other and to us—dancing, seducing, resting, and perhaps casting their spells, destroying and rebuilding their surroundings into a more hopeful future. They exist outside the boundaries of canvas or cardboard; they are not images meant to be intellectually engaged with, but presences that feel alive. In conversation with sites of apparition—fields and flowers, which Cacciapaglia also calls feminine, on both permanent and temporary material—the works invite us to engage in our own apparitions, our visions, and the poetic and indescribable.
- Emma Saperstein @emmalucillesaperstein@sofiacacciapaglia
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