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Clima is proud to present a dialogue between sculptures by Italian artist Sacha Kanah and works on canvas by American painter Dana Lok.
Scattered throughout the space, Kanah’s industrial tanks–turned–sculptures seem to breathe or compress, concealing themselves within everyday objects and arranging themselves in the space as if weightless. By manipulating, deconstructing, and reshaping these plastic containers, Kanah investigates the new possible relationships that emerge between matter and form, void and solid, interior and exterior.
Dana Lok’s pictorial research explores the relationship between sign and meaning, surface and image. Her work delves into the threshold between what is seen and what is represented, as in the paintings displayed on the walls. The result is an open invitation to explore the range of visual perception, challenging conventions and offering new perspectives on reality.

Via Lazzaro Palazzi 3, 20124 Milan ITALY

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Sacha Kanah and Dana Lok

Sacha Kanah (b. 1981, Milan, IT)
He studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan and in 2016 obtained a master’s degree from Politecnico di Milano.
Recent exhibitions: Grex, curated by Progetto Ludovico, ICA Milano, Milan (2025 - solo show); Sleep Starts, Clima, Milan (2024 - solo show) ;Tante care cose, Clima, Milan (2023); Buchi nella trama, curated by Edoardo De Cobelli, Spazio Volta, Bergamo (solo show), We are the flood, curated by Stefano Cagol, MUSE, Trento, The New Abnormal, curated by Saverio Verini and Matteo Fato, Straperetana V, Pereto (2022).
Kanah was part of the artistic duo Lisa Dalfino & Sacha Kanah. Selected exhibitions: Nulla è perduto, curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Anna Daneri , GAMeC, Bergamo (2021); Vibrisse, Clima, Milano (solo show), L’aureola nelle cose, curated by Guido Molinari, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, #80 | #90 & more, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, La Fondazione, Roma (2020); Immersione Libera, curated by Giovanni Paolin, Bagni Misteriosi, Milano, Prospettiva Arte Contemporanea. La Collezione di Fondazione Fiera Milano, Gallerie d’Italia, Milano (2019); Freefall, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna (solo show), Chi Utopia mangia le mele, curated by Adriana Polveroni and Gabriele Tosi, ex Dogana di terra, Verona, Figure di spago. Pratiche di narrazione, curated by Caterina Molteni Fondazione Baruchello, Roma, La Febbre, curated by Vincenzo Schillaci, Palazzo Mazzarino, on the occasion of Manifesta 12, Palermo, L’isola portatile, curated by Caterina Molteni, ADA, Roma, Hammer and laudanum, Galería Javier Silva, Valladolid, Forze apparenti, curated by Treti Galaxie, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (2018); Minuto blu, Clima, Milano (solo show) (2017).

Installation view of Sacha Kanah solo show at Fondazione ICA, Milan curated by PROGETTO LUDOVICO

For Kanah, sculptures placed in a suffocating environment are like bodies underwater. They are three-dimensional objects without weight, organizing themselves within the space. Perhaps this is why even the observer feels as if they are in apnea. The organs pause as one watches and notices the intervals between the carefully arranged elements in the confined space. Voids and solids trace a subtle path.

Rossella Farinotti

A Little Green Rosetta - © Paris Internationale

Sacha Kanah

A Little Green Rosetta, 2025

IBC, valve, inflatable sofa, steel rod, bleach, vacuum
111 x 121 x 104 cm

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Jelly Roll Gum Drop - © Paris Internationale

Sacha Kanah

Jelly Roll Gum Drop, 2025

IBC, valve, inflatable pool, umbrella, acrylic, vacuum,
109 x 123 x 112 cm

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Watermelons in Easter Hayt - © Paris Internationale

Sacha Kanah

Watermelons in Easter Hayt, 2025—2025

IBC, valve, rubber ball, paint, bleach, vacuum
80 x 96 x 116 cm

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Dana Lok (b. 1988, Berwyn, PA) received an MFA from Columbia University in 2015 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2016. Solo exhibitions of her work include: Part and Parse at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2024); Closer to the Metal at Clima, Milan (2023); Part and Parse at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2022); One Second Per Second at PAGE, New York (2020); Words Without Skin at Clima, Milan (2019); Mind’s Mouth at Bianca D’Allessandro, Copenhagen (2018); Soft Fact at Clima, Milan (2017); and The Set of All Sets at Chewday’s, London (2016).
Group shows include: Strange Sensation,FoyerLA, Los Angeles (2024); Emotional Intelligence II, polina berlin gallery, New York (2024); darling, your head’s not right, curated by Danica Lundy, François Ghebaly, New York (2023); Anything can pass before the eyes of a person, Derosia, New York (2023); X PINK 101, X Museum, Beijing (2023); The future perfect will have arrived, curated by Bridget Mullen, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (2023); Le Biscuit à Soupe, High Art, Arles, France (2022); Gravity, a proposal, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2022); Jahresgaben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2021); Regroup Show, Miguel Abreu Gallery (2021); Fifteen Painters, Andrew Kreps Gallery (2021); PAGE (NYC), Petzel Gallery (2021); and In Place Of, curated by Leah Pires, Miguel Abreu Gallery (2016), all in New York.

Lok first emerged as an abstract painter before turning to figuration and developing her distinctive style in which enigmatic questions addressing the passage of time or the act of seeing, for instance, are afforded imaginative, incisive answers. Complex and morphing systems of insight are made visible while never wholly transparent. These half-offered, half-withheld solutions hold the viewer’s gaze and mind in a state of suspension, a testimony to her deep involvement with the complexities of the medium of painting.