The Tale of the Eye, The Seed and the Snake
Site specific sculptural installation and sound piece by Lucia Pizzani for Frieze Sculpture 2025 presented by Galeria Doris Ghetta & Victoria Law Projects. This edition titled “In the Shadows in curated by Fatos Ustek.
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES: 16th of September 5:30 pm (By invitation) / 16th of October 4pm
With Lucia Pizzani, Lucia Pietroiusti and special appearance by singer songwriter Luzmira Zerpa
ARTIST TALK: Warburg Institute on 17 October, between 5:30 with Faros Ustek, Henrique Oliverira and
Lucia Pizzani.
MORE SOON, Sound piece in process based on the 3 stories co-written by Pizzani and Lucia Pietroiusti. Voices: Pizzani, Pietroiusti and Luzmira Zerpa. Music composition by Javier Weyler.
Below you can hear the Quitiplás drums on Venezuela to get inspired by this recording of the Lares Archive from 1976. Soon the sound pice with the 3 tales will be here in its place.
The Tale of the Eye, the Snake and the Seed by Lucia Pizzani is a site-specific sculpture and sound piece composed of three ceramic forms, each symbolizing an archetypal motif from ancient iconography: the seed, the snake and the eye. These elements, fired in clay and interlinked with steel structures, are placed across the landscape of The Regent’s Park.
The seed represents fertility and growth, referencing the biological cycles of nature and its generative power. The snake, often associated with the earth and transformation, suggests renewal and the tension between life and death.
The eye is a symbol of protection and perception, a guiding presence in darkness. Together, the three motifs form a sculptural triad connected through material, symbolism and place.
The installation is accompanied by a sound piece created in collaboration with Lucia Pietroiusti, Head of Ecologies at Serpentine. The two developed a fictional story embedded with a surrealist style, using dreams and psychedelic visions as a point of departure. They become the Eye, the Seed and the Snake through sensorial experiences both bodily and cosmic. This story was recorded as a layered audio composition, featuring fragments of spoken word combined with ambient sounds and field recordings captured in the park.
The resulting experience blends ceramic sculpture with literary and sonic elements, encouraging visitors to reflect on nature, mythology, and embodied knowledge. The work is part of Pizzani’s broader practice, which investigates the intersection of the feminine, ecology, and material transformation.