From Shirin Neshat’s haunting films to Sam Lock’s minimalist canvases, here’s what not to miss during Miart.

Sam Lock | Cadogan Gallery | 26 February – 12 April

In a 2019 interview with The London Magazine, British artist Sam Lock spoke of the importance of art and imagination as tools with which to ‘redress in some way the blankness and dumbing down of the world’. His latest exhibition at Cadogan Gallery’s Milanese venue does just that, unfolding like a visual poem through more than 70 works. Brushstrokes, traces and marks in blues and whites disappear and reappear on other works, highlighting the bond between the works themselves – the links between fragment and whole – and the artist’s ongoing preoccupation with presence and absence. The five larger works, Stanza I-V (all works 2024), have been cut and stretched from the same roll of raw canvas, whereas the smaller pieces, Fraction 1 – 34, which dot the gallery like musical notes, have been painted on paper pasted to resin-coated, sanded panels. The resulting show is a testament to the undeniable power of art to alter and nurture us.