Sapar Contemporary

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<p>Sapar Contemporary is pleased to announce their second solo exhibition of works by Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer (Italy). The Unicorn and Other Creatures of Hope is a new body of work where Ferrer turns her gaze to the unicorn — a creature whose mythology has traversed millennia, continents, and belief systems — as a vehicle for exploring ideas of liberty, captivity, purity, and transcendence. Drawing upon a decade-long fascination with <em>The Unicorn Tapestries</em> at The Met Cloisters, Ferrer reimagines the unicorn as a deeply spiritual being, a symbol both of sovereignty and sacrifice.</p><p><em>The Unicorn</em> continues Ferrer’s exploration of ritual, mythology, and the sacred. Her paintings reinterpret Christian iconography through a universal lens. Living and working in Tuscany, Ferrer engages deeply with the Christian and pagan mythologies that saturate the European landscape. “Where before in my work there was melancholy, now there is mystery,” she reflects. “Where before there was tragedy, now there is a glimmer of hope.”</p>