Thomas Brambilla Gallery is proud to present the third solo exhibition by artist Erik Saglia, opening on May 16, 2026.
The exhibition features seven new works from the Spaced Out series, made of painted aluminum and LED light. These works mark a development from Saglia’s earlier painting practice, introducing light and technological elements while maintaining his focus on essential imagery and the tension between perception and structure, visibility and concealment.
The exhibition title, inspired by the philosopher Yuk Hui, refers to the idea of an “infinitely potential nothing” — not as absence, but as a suspension of determined forms in which anything can emerge. This concept challenges a linear and progressive view of technological modernity, instead suggesting a plurality of possible futures and alternatives to standardized systems.
The works’ circular and modular structures, traversed by serial patterns and luminous fields, recall technical devices yet lack a clear function, appearing as abstract elements detached from invisible infrastructures. LED light plays an active role, shaping color and spatial perception, while reflective surfaces and chromatic variations cause the works to change depending on the viewer’s position and environmental conditions.
Within the context of a broader systemic crisis, the exhibition reflects on the relationship between art, history, matter, and technology. Rather than illustrating a fixed message, the works create perceptual conditions in which meaning can emerge. Abstraction thus becomes a way to engage with complexity without reducing it, emphasizing fragmentation and difference as both aesthetic and political positions. The “nothing” of the title is therefore not an emptiness to be filled, but an active threshold of possibility — a space in which perception is suspended and new ideas can take shape.
