TOTAH presents Cabin fever, an exhibition of recent works by Luca Pancrazzi. Cabin fever opens to the public on July 25th at the gallery’s satellite location in Pantelleria, Italy. This is Pancrazzi’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and the inaugural exhibition at the new space in Pantelleria, Italy.

Luca Pancrazzi’s paintings thread the act of seeing through different tactile layers while wrapping around the spatial particulars of place. Starting with acrylics applied to paper of varying degrees of thickness, Pancrazzi’s images build into a formalism that swallows the traffic, signage, and scaffolding he depicts in cyclical registrations of pure symmetry.

The timestamps earmarking each work invite viewers to peer through the scrim of objectivity towards something unfolding against the haptic contours of Pancrazzi’s surfaces; each embossed with a constellation of its own visual incidents. 180502122022 suggests only the essential details needed to capture this particular scene. The fencing in the foreground seems to hold a sentient web of sociality, politics, loves, fears, and mythologies. Pancrazzi’s vista radiates, and even expresses, all of these aspects simply by recreating a mystery in broad daylight—momentarily glimpsed through a passing window.

In 155906122022, Pancrazzi captures light not as some displaced aura, but as a singular instant uniquely brought to life in the act of painting. Daubs of sky-toned pigment become externalizations not so much of consciousness as of conscience—a luminous substrate that shifts with the light of passing hours. Such works document a space apart—an intimate world where fragments are gathered and transformed, distinct from everyday life, where events flow by in an altered homogeneity indifferent to ordinary registers.

Pancrazzi’s themes appear and disappear, leaving traces only in memory and painted forms. The resulting paintings— “cards,” as Pancrazzi calls them—are more than simple representations; they’re records of accidental meetings, sedimentations of time and material, where intention and chance converge. Each work bears the mark of its own unique codified network—a temporal and spatial signature that grants it identity and situates it in an ongoing cartography of experience.