Lucía Pizzani, ‘The Tale of the Eye, the Snake and the Seed’, 2025
Presented by Galleria Doris Ghetta & Victoria Law Projects
Presented by Galleria Doris Ghetta & Victoria Law Projects
Lucía Pizzani, The Tale of the Eye, the Snake and the Seed, 2025
Presented by Galleria Doris Ghetta & Victoria Law Projects
The Tale of the Eye, the Snake and the Seed by Lucía Pizzani is a site-specific sculpture and sound piece composed of three ceramic forms, each symbolizing an archetypal motif from ancient iconography: the eye, the snake and the seed. These elements, fired in clay and supported by steel structures, are placed across the landscape of The Regent’s Park.
The seed represents fertility and growth, referencing the biological cycles of nature and its generative power. The snake, often associated with the earth and transformation, suggests renewal and the tension between life and death. The eye is a symbol of protection and perception, a guiding presence in darkness. Together, the three motifs form a sculptural triad connected through material, symbolism and place.
The installation is accompanied by a sound piece developed in collaboration with Lucia Pietroiusti, head of ecologies at Serpentine. Together, Pizzani and Pietroiusti created a fictional narrative infused with surrealist sensibilities, drawing on dreams and psychedelic visions. Through sensorial experiences – both bodily and cosmic – they become the Eye, the Seed and the Snake. The resulting story was recorded as a layered audio composition, weaving fragments of spoken word with ambient soundscapes and field recordings captured in the park.
The resulting experience combines ceramic sculpture with literary and sonic elements, inviting visitors to reflect on nature, mythology and embodied knowledge. It forms part of Pizzani’s wider practice, which explores the intersections of the feminine, ecological consciousness and material transformation.
About Lucía Pizzani
Lucía Pizzani (b.1975, Caracas; lives and works in London) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of ecology, transformation and the feminine. She works across ceramics, photography, performance and installation, often drawing on biological forms and mythological narratives. Pizzani holds degrees from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Columbia University (CERC) and Chelsea College of Arts. Recent commissions and presentations include Amazon Biennial, Belém; Frieze London (Smoke section); Serpentine Gallery, London; Harewood Biennial, Leeds; Magasin3, Stockholm; Casa Wabi, Oaxaca; and Palazzo Bolani, Venice. Her work is held in public collections including Tate, Magasin3, CPPC, Essex Collection for Art in Latin America, Museum of Latin American Art and Fondation Thalie. Recent solo exhibitions include Cecilia Brunson Projects Apsara Studio at Frieze No.9 Cork St, London; Bosse & Baum, London; Abra, Caracas; Galeria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei; and PhotoLondon with Victoria Law Projects. Last year she published her first monograph with collaborations including Lisa Le Feuvre and Lucia Pietroiusti. Pizzani is a studio artist at Gasworks, London.
Frieze Sculpture is in The Regent’s Park, 17 September – 2 November 2025. No booking required, free to all.
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Frieze Sculpture runs alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, 15 – 19 October 2025.
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Main image: Lucía Pizzani, The Tale of the Eye, the Snake and the Seed, 2025. Photography: Linda Nylind
