Emii Alrai @ Maximillian Willliam, London

In this exhibition of new works presented by Emii Alrai –  A Lake as Great as Its Bones, takes its name from Lake Nemi, a volcanic crater south of Rome, which the artist encountered during her residency at the Villa Medici in 2023. Drawing from the lake’s great history of shipbuilding, scuttling, excavation and destruction, the installation blends ceramics, metalwork, and sculpture to build a world that gathers fictions, fragments, and traces of an inconclusive past.

For this exhibition, Alrai continues her investigation of material histories that reference archaeological sites and museum displays.   She works with gold, pewter, silver, copper, and clay.