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Maximillian William is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Emii Alrai. A Lake as Great as Its Bones takes its name from Lake Nemi, a volcanic crater south of Rome that the artist encountered during her residency at the Villa Medici in 2023. Drawing from the lake’s great history of shipbuilding, scuttling, excavation and destruction, the installation blends ceramics, metalwork, and sculpture to build a world that gathers fictions, fragments, and traces of an inconclusive past.

For her first exhibition with the gallery, Alrai continues her investigation of material histories …