Where no one knows opens a single trail through the dark, and into the fog. Torrisi renders a soft and dreamlike space, working in cool blues and greens. The painting belongs to the woodland territories, forests of her own land that she paints as real places and places impossible to locate. What she offers is in this piece is a road anyone might have travelled and no one could name.

Samantha Torrisi is an atmospheric and contemplative painter whose work moves between landscape, memory, and human presence. Born in Catania in 1977 and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts there, she lives and works on the slopes of Mount Etna, where the volcano's moods and the Sicilian horizon run through everything she makes. Her painting reclaims images gathered from photography, cinema, video, and personal footage, slowing a single frame until places and figures dissolve into rarefied air. Her faded palette and softened edges give even emptiness a quality of tenderness. She has exhibited widely in Italy and abroad.