Etherealities, Thomas Canto's solo show with Volery Gallery in Dubai in 2022, grew out of a dialogue with the gallery's owner, Rom Levy. The project led the artist to settle in the region, so that the works could be developed in the city they address: Dubai, its perspectives, its reflections and its constant expansion.
Two series faced each other. Black-and-white paintings, named after real places, drew on photographs of megacities to question the globalisation of architecture. Coloured sculptures in cut stainless steel from the Structural Reflections series set a figurative front against an abstract back of endless reflections, leaving each viewer to set the city in motion by choosing a point of view.