Andreas Senoner
x Sam Ballet
Quiet Encounters
To close the year 2025, the gallery presents Quiet Encounters, an exhibition bringing together two artists with distinctive universes: Andreas Senoner (Italy) and Sam Ballet (Belgium). Both explore, through different media — sculpture and drawing — the tension between presence and absence, the permanence of material and the fleeting nature of gesture.
For Andreas Senoner, wood sculpture becomes a space of memory and metamorphosis. Precise yet meditative, his figures often appear fragmented, their faces erased, as if suspended in time. This embrace of incompleteness dissolves individuality in favour of a more universal humanity. The density of the wood, a material imbued with history, converses with the delicacy of feathers or natural elements, endowing his works with a quiet intensity and a spiritual resonance.
Sam Ballet, meanwhile, constructs with coloured pencil a world in which reality is tinged with imagination. His drawings, formally precise, reflect a sensitive observation of everyday life, where the human figure is rarely direct but suggested through a diffuse presence — a gesture, a light, an atmosphere. By refusing titles, the artist leaves his compositions open, inviting the viewer to project their own narrative.
Placed side by side, the two universes reveal a dialogue of great subtlety: the density of wood responds to the lightness of line, the permanence of volume to the fragility of the trace. Both share an acute attention to material, a taste for the slowness of gesture, and an introspective approach to the passage of time.
Quiet Encounters thus traces a shared territory — one of active contemplation, where silence becomes a space for listening and imagination. Between drawing and sculpture, absence and presence, Senoner and Ballet offer a suspended moment, a pause within the flow of the visible.