Document is delighted to present Pieces, Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and the artist’s first solo show in Portugal. Opening on Friday, February 6, the exhibition will remain on view through May 23, 2026.

Over the past two decades, Rafferty has created a vast body of wall works, sculptures, and installations that humorously and aggressively grapple with images and iconography in contemporary culture. While some of the works in her exhibition at Document Lisbon were made or initiated as early as 2019, Pieces marks a change in Rafferty’s approach to making and exhibiting artwork. After a year of writing and revising a forthcoming book on imagery, Pieces comprises bodies of work entirely devoid of photographic image. Produced in a small kiln in her Brooklyn studio, the glass pieces in the exhibition are color studies, compositions made from scraps, and other studio experiments made during a time of challenge and change.

Themes that emerge in the work include reflection, as in the suite of black glass collages with broken, mirror-like, bubbly surfaces; a possible return to portraiture, as in the translucent, polychrome, rounded, head-sized forms; or, finally, play, as in the assemblages of multicellular, bubble-like shapes. Mainstays of her work, such as formal invention, elliptical logic, specific and culture-bound color, and the breaking of the rectangle on the wall, remain present. Continuing her work in the opaque, translucent, and reflective medium of glass, these collected pieces can be seen individually as humble sketches—often pieced together from slivers, powders, and shards—or taken together as a statement. Pieces.