LUPO Lorenzelli Projects opens its new home in Via Borsieri 29 with who wouldn’t want to live in a fantasy, the second solo exhibition by the British artist Aniela Preston.

Drawing from Medieval, Renaissance and Mannerist traditions, Preston creates vivid, dreamlike worlds where endangered animals, symbolic landscapes and self-referential figures inhabit ornate menageries—beautiful structures that both protect and confine. Her works explore the paradoxes of preservation and possession, seduction and control, inviting viewers into a space where fantasy becomes a way to confront the contradictions of the present.

With luminous colours and meticulously composed scenes, Preston reveals a civilisation that romanticises nature while contributing to its fragility. Her paintings do not offer escape; they sharpen perception. In these imagined sanctuaries, fantasy becomes both refuge and reckoning.

who wouldn’t want to live in a fantasy marks a new chapter for the gallery and presents Preston’s most ambitious exploration of the tensions between beauty, vulnerability and the desire to dream when reality feels increasingly unstable.