We enter the paintings of Christina Dobbs and Leo Ragno as if we were in a summer memory, as if we felt the dry grass breaking under our feet, we find a childhood path, the scent of a desire, the floating of bathing bodies, we lose ourselves in the color, we find ourselves, we absently rediscover gentle, old burns. It is the capture of the lights of childhood and desire.


The bodies melt together, captured in a space, it seems like a time, so long that it seems to distend. The two artists work in lazy time in the expanses of days abandoned to the sun; The moments of latency, of calm where the distant sound of crickets rings, the delicate crash of a pebble thrown in the air, the crumpling of a sheet. Paintings of the ordinary and of erasure, paintings of time and its indolence, a mixture of waiting and languor, where the forbidden has the breath of innocence. In view 12 rue Rochebrune Paris, 11e And then finally, finally the void becomes a world, the abstract, the outlines without features, the mixed bodies, the gaze without gaze, the portrait without a face. It is the emergence of the poem in memory.

Painter and engraver, born in 1984 in Milan Leo Ragno teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

Christina Dobbs is a British-American painter living in London. Christina Dobbs recently graduated in 2021 with an MFA from the City & Guilds of London Art School.

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