A Levitating Territory
Majo Caporaletti
Vicky Polak
Curated by Adela Blanco
Blanco Gallery is pleased to present A Levitating Territory, an exhibition curated by Adela Blanco and featuring the work of Argentinian painter Majo Caporaletti and visual artist Vicky Polak.
What happens when matter seems to lose its weight, when the real withdraws from itself? When this opposing force disappears, matter levitates.
In this exhibition, the Argentine artists Majo Caporaletti and Vicky Polak work from a Latin American perspective, observing the desert lands of the Atacama in Chile and the Delta Islands on the banks of the Río de la Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Working through oil painting and black-and-white photography respectively, Caporaletti and Polak develop distinct yet connected approaches to territory, the body and the unseen. Both artists seek to subtract reality, whether through photographic double exposure or through the use of colour and form.
Just as these two artists work with opposing materialities, with elements such as the water of the Delta and the earth of the desert, the two forces counteract one another and generate a sense of lightness in the gallery, where an invisible force can be perceived through the work itself.
By highlighting the fissure and finding portals to traverse between dimensions, what levitates lies between what is and what could be.
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The exhibition is open from the 16 to 21 June 2026.
At Filet, 103 Murray Grove, London N1 7QP
London
Private View: Tuesday 16 June, 18:00 - 20:00
The Artists
Majo Caporaletti
Majo Caporaletti is an Argentine working primarily in painting. Her practice explores the relationship between the natural world, dream imagery, and the shifting boundaries between the human and the animal, creating works that exist between the visible and the imagined.
She studied Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) in Buenos Aires and continued her training at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris. Her work has been recognised in national competitions and biennials, receiving awards including an Honourable Mention at the 110th National Visual Arts Prize (2022) and the Acquisition Prize at the Bancor Painting Prize (2021).
Her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions including Perseguir un rastro (Museo de Bellas Artes Palacio Ferreyra, Córdoba, 2025) and Respira la noche (Galería Praxis, Buenos Aires, 2024), as well as group exhibitions in Buenos Aires and New York. In 2025, she participated in the Reimagine Futures residency in the Atacama Desert, invited by La Wayaka Current (UK).
Through the use of light and symbolic language, Caporaletti explores emotional and affective states, approaching painting as a form of enquiry an attempt to capture what exists at the edges of perception and to hold the image as a question rather than a fixed answer.
Vicky Polak
Vicky Polak is an interdisciplinary artist based in London, working across film, photography, and visual anthropology. Her practice explores themes of memory, identity, and cultural narratives through documentary and experimental forms of storytelling.
With a background in anthropology and cinema, she combines research-driven methodologies with an intuitive and poetic visual language. Her work engages with landscapes marked by rupture and forgetting, drawing on ongoing research into affective archaeology and ritual topographies to question how their stories and mythologies might be heard again.
Alongside her artistic practice, she works as a Creative Producer at Victoria Miro Gallery. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at London Design Week and the Argentine Ambassador’s Residence in the UK, and has received recognition through awards across Latin America and Europe.