MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present The Trace of Things, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Dominique Fung, a Canadian artist of Chinese descent. The exhibition brings together a new body of work – paintings, jewellery boxes, and, shown for the first time, her drawings. A trace is what remains after the thing itself is gone: the imprint of a leaf in stone, the outline of a wing, the mark a hand leaves on a page. Each of these works is, in its own way, a trace.
The exhibition is, in the artist's own words, "a continuation of everything" – a deepening of her long study of how history is mediated and mythologised, traced through Chinese antiquities, from Shang dynasty bronzes to Tang dynasty objects.