Opening: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 · 7–9 pm
Corso di Porta Ticinese 87, 20123 Milan, Italy
WIZARD LAB is pleased to present Meeting the Universe Halfway, a solo exhibition by Sarah Ciracì.
Taking its title from physicist and philosopher Karen Barad’s 2007 book, the exhibition brings together new works in video, lenticular photography, holographic film, and installation. Across these media, Ciracì investigates the limits of perception and knowledge, exploring the relationship between human experience, technology, and the accelerating pace of scientific change.
Conceived around ideas drawn from quantum physics and its philosophical implications, the exhibition reflects on reality as an entangled and indivisible whole, always in a process of becoming. Central to the project is the concept of “intra-action,” introduced by Barad to describe a world in which observer and observed are not separate, but mutually constituted.
At the center of the exhibition is a large-scale lenticular photograph whose image shifts according to the viewer’s movement. Resistant to a single fixed reading, the work makes visible the importance of point of view: perception is never independent from the position of the beholder.
A second major work takes its formal cue from Lucio Fontana’s Spatialist cuts, shifting the inquiry toward the Holographic Principle explored by David Bohm and Leonard Susskind. Through holographic film, Ciracì creates shifting iridescent fields that change according to light and angle, suggesting a reality in which each part contains information about the whole.
Rather than illustrating scientific ideas, Ciracì’s works activate them as perceptual experiences. The exhibition unfolds around the boundary between what an image reveals and what it withholds, proposing perception as partial, entangled, and always incomplete.
Meeting the Universe Halfway is accompanied by a critical text written by Sarah Ciracì and Gabriela Galati.
Installation: Marcello Camoglio.
Sarah Ciracì
Born in Grottaglie in 1972, Sarah Ciracì is an artist whose practice spans photography, video, and installation. Since the early 1990s, her work has explored the intersections of human experience, technology, pop culture, and mass media. More recently, her research has turned toward quantum physics and its resonances with Buddhist philosophy, examining the limits of knowledge across scientific and contemplative traditions.
Born in Grottaglie in 1972, Sarah Ciracì is an artist whose practice spans photography, video, and installation. Since the early 1990s, her work has explored the intersections of human experience, technology, pop culture, and mass media. More recently, her research has turned toward quantum physics and its resonances with Buddhist philosophy, examining the limits of knowledge across scientific and contemplative traditions.
She studied at DAMS and at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at institutions including MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York, and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome. She has participated in group exhibitions at MAXXI, Rome; Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Triennale di Milano; FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon; and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
In 2003–04, she was awarded the New York Prize, a yearly scholarship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York. Her work is included in public collections such as MACRO, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Collezione La Farnesina, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
Sarah Ciracì lives and works in Milan.