Jessica Warboys on Henry James and Historical Memory at Galleria Gentili

Jessica Warboys (Newport, 1977) presents a solo exhibition at Galleria Gentili in Florence, exploring architecture, time, memory, and historical deception through the lens of Henry James's travel notebooks. The show emphasizes sensation and fleeting moments, with works that evoke Renaissance basilica floor plans, 16th-century maps, rocky landscapes, and fragments of ancient frescoes. Pigments create a visual, tactile, and olfactory itinerary across centuries. The immobility of landscape and architecture witnesses the transient passage of humans, who attach personal memories and sensations, in an illusion of vain possession but also in the certainty of future artistic and social developments. The exhibition was reviewed by Niccolò Lucarelli.