Andreas Senoner x Sam Ballet
Quiet Encounters
As we approach the end of 2025, the gallery is proud to present Quiet Encounters, a unique exhibition that brings together the artistic visor of two exceptional artists: Italian artist, Andreas Senoner, who is exhibition here for the first time, and Belgian artist, Sam Ballet, who is returning for his second exhibition at the gallery
Through their use of carved wood and delicate lines, Senoner and Ballet create a space where memory, fragility, and silence converge. Together, they invite us to experience these quiet encounters — moments suspended on the threshold between the visible and the intimate.
The wood sculptures of Andreas Senoner, crafted from carefully selected precious woods, bear the traces of both gesture and time. In his Florentine studio, he transforms raw material into meditative forms infused with silent presence. His figures often appear fragmented, their faces erased — an intentional effacement that dissolves individuality to reach a more universal sense of humanity.
Some of his works are veiled with delicate feathers, as if the sculpture itself had begun to breathe. The contrast between the density of wood and the lightness of plumage opens a poetic dialogue between matter and spirit, giving his works a calm, almost breathing intensity.
In dialogue, Sam Ballet builds a world of subtle nuance through coloured pencil drawings. Small in scale yet remarkably precise, his works unfold like intimate narratives. The human figure barely surfaces — present in a movement, a gesture, or a fleeting breath, more suggested than shown.
His universe sometimes recalls Twin Peaks and other stories suffused with mystery — places where the familiar turns enigmatic, and where the softness of the line conceals emotional depth.
Through his luminous, fragile marks, Ballet captures the instant where thought becomes image. By refusing to title his works, he leaves each viewer free to project their own story — between clarity and secrecy.
Placed side by side, the works of Senoner and Ballet engage in a dialogue of correspondences: colour and texture, surface and volume, the ephemerality of a line and the permanence of a sculpted form. Both artists share a deep respect for material, a meditative attention to detail, and a contemplative spirit that invites the gaze to slow down.
Within this shared silence — between drawing and sculpture, absence and presence — Quiet Encounters unfolds its subtle strength, leaving space for mystery, for breath, and for the imagination.