Nicola L.: I Am the Last Woman Object
Francesca Pietropaolo, The Brooklyn Rail
February 2026
A sense of transformation, rebellion, hope, and play suffuses the multifarious art of Nicola L. (b. 1932, Morocco; d. 2018, US) in ways that make it ever more relevant in our present times. The exhibition invites new lines of inquiry into her five-decade-long experimentation with painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, performance, and film. Gathering over eighty works spanning from the 1960s to the 2010s, it marks the first in-depth presentation of the artist’s work in Italy, and, as part of a collaboration with other institutions, where slightly different incarnations of the retrospective took place in 2024 and 2025—London’s Camden Art Centre, Rennes’s Frac Bretagne, and Vienna’s Kunsthalle Wien—it provides a long-overdue reconsideration of the full breath of L.’s oeuvre in Europe. […]