Apparitions: Erica D'Ali
23 January - 14 February 2026

 

Please join us to celebrate Erica D’Ali’s debut solo show opening tonight on Friday, January 23rd 6-9 pm

 

D’Ali’s paintings are the ghosts of medieval masterpieces. On first glance, her work reveals subtleties of gesture and colour in fields of white and cream cotton. When viewed from a distance, Western pictorial traditions are recognisable (arches, vaults, angels and saints) but up close, these dissolve into delicate yet decisive painterly gestures.
… The boundaries and structure of the canvas are the mechanisms that produce the scene. Painting is material performance; the medium is the message. Transparency is crucial. Timber stretcher bars are purposeful additions to these compositions, materially insistent, often window-like and architectural. Structure, visible through the light touch of paint and delicate stretched cotton, is unveiled. 
    Through exposure, gaps and the risk of incompletion, the work resists closure and remains responsive. In this sense, visual permeability is also vulnerability.
 

– Genevieve Felix Reynolds, Excerpt of Exhibition Essay

 

Erica D’Ali’s practice recontextualises renowned European artworks through reproduction. Focussed on the Late Medieval to High Renaissance periods of Italian art history in particular, D’Ali examines the way in which the imagery of these artworks continue to linger within the Western collective consciousness by media oversaturation and as the representation of her cultural heritage. D'Ali's intuitive applications and gestures on raw cotton subtly offer new interpretations that hint towards a transhistorical transcendence and sense of aura.


Apparitions continues from January 23 - February 14, 2026

 

To request a catalogue or for more information, please email us via hello@8wallgallery.org

 

With special thanks to our sponsor, SAINT FELIX, for providing our opening drinks with their Limoncello Spritz, gin cocktails and more. 

 

 

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