UPCOMING EXHIBITION:

Stefano Cerio

Brenva

Opening on Wednesday October 8th 2025, 6-9pm.

October 8th-November 14th 2025.

WIZARD LAB is pleased to present Brenva, Stefano Cerio’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.

The exhibition showcases a body of new work from Cerio’s ongoing Brenva series, focusing on the progressive and rapid recession of the Brenva glacier in Mont Blanc.

Following the Aquila project (2019–2021)—where the artist installed inflatable churches, castles, and slides throughout the landscape surrounding the earthquake-stricken city of L’Aquila—Cerio returns to the use of inflatables in his photographic work to prompt reflection on the climate crisis and the morphological changes to the planet caused by human activity, in this case focusing on the rapid retreat of a glacier.
In his Brenva series, the artist captures the stark transformation of the glacier, placing a blue inflatable wall at the center of a landscape that now resembles a lunar terrain. Positioned where the glacier once ended, the inflatable structure highlights the expanding surface of the mountain now exposed due to the melting ice. This gesture points out at the limits of human perception and to a collective inability to envision the future.

In his text for the homonymous book recently published by Quodlibet, critic Stefano Chiodi writes: “The Brenva glacier is a body that no longer exists. The photograph recalls it in the form of a lack. The sign traced in its emptiness—the blue inflatable or the white silhouettes—is a threshold: open not so much to what has been, but to what remains of our ability to remember, to bear witness, to feel.”

The exhibition features a selection of six large- and medium-format photographs, two backlit works, and a video.
Cerio’s work, rooted in a conceptual approach that blurs the boundaries between photography, contemporary art, and environmental art, establishes a dialogue between artistic languages to document and make visible the profound transformations currently reshaping the Earth.