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    In Practice: Magdalena Petroni

    In Practice: Magdalena Petroni

    May-Jun 2026

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    Magdalena Petroni’s practice delves into the subtext of meaning in popular visual language, drawing from media, branding, and online subcommunities. Layering painting and sculpture, her works often accumulate within immersive installations. Dissimilar objects are assembled in a frantic manner, exploring alterity, the uncanny, and the extrasensory in relation to the alienated. For In Practice, she examines the blurred boundaries between reality and hyperreality through a labyrinthine structure that expands on her research into perception, liminal spaces, and movie sets.

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    In Practice is made possible by the Elaine Graham Weitzen Commissioning Fund for Emerging Artists, which supports the production of new work by artists selected from SculptureCenter's annual open call.

    Major support for the In Practice 2025 program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The In Practice program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

    Generous support for In Practice is provided by Sarah Elson.

    In Practice: Magdalena Petroni is supported by the Eva Hesse Initiative for New Sculpture.

    Support for all of SculptureCenter’s work with artists from abroad is provided by the International Council: Anonymous, Stephen Cheng, Micki Meng, Yan Du, Thomas Berger, Antonio Murzi and Diana Morgan, Audrey Rose Smith and Vicente Muñoz, and Füsun Eczacıbaşı - SAHA.