Emilio Isgrò and Alighiero Boetti

20 May-6 Sep 2026

Overview

A dual exhibition that brings together two visionary Italian artists whose work radically reimagines the way we perceive maps, territories and language. Emilio Isgrò (b. 1937) manipulates existing maps and encyclopaedic knowledge by systematically obliterating place names. By interfering with geographical representation, his imagery questions the objectivity of maps and their colonial, scientific and ideological frameworks. Alighiero Boetti (1940 – 1994) produced embroidered maps between the 1970s and 1990s in Afghanistan and Pakistan:; these represented the world’s countries by their national flags, often according to outdated or shifting political boundaries. The resulting works are time capsules – hand-stitched records of a world in flux.