Ninetto is excited to present The Last Seahorse Neighing in an Egg, a summer exhibition featuring individual and collaborative works by Faye Wei Wei and Erin Wolf Mommsen. Both painters came for a residency at Ninetto during the month of July, 2025. A book gathering their collaborative poems and drawings is available as a limited, signed edition of 100 copies.
Faye Wei Wei is currently attending the MA in Fine Arts of Yale (USA) after she graduated from the Slade (London, UK) in 2016. Faye Wei Wei conceives of the painting process as an intimate choreography between actual and pictorial space. Revolving around spiritual iconography and classical myth, love rituals and the theatricality of gender, her works address the themes of particular mythic narratives and at other moments depart into a more ambiguous, interior space of incongruity and uncertainty.
Erin Mommsen treads the world with an uncanny ease. A self-taught painter and draftsman based in New York, his work emerges from a deeply felt connection to transience—of places, of moods, of memory. His oil paintings and drawings evoke a dreamlike state where time stretches and contracts, where forms hover at the edge of recognition. They carry a lingering, fleeting sense of melancholy and nostalgia—like moments that feel uncannily familiar, as if drawn from memories we never had. Beneath their quiet sophistication, a childlike naïveté emerges, a raw openness that invites us to see the world as if for the first time. Moving in and out of small, concentrated bodies of work, Mommsen explores the fragile quality of presence, using painting as a meditation on being. There is an old soul in his sensibility, a quiet resistance to the velocity and sensitivities of modern times. To him, art is not a fixed act but a process of becoming—of thought gathering matter, of stillness turning into resonance. It is a pursuit of transcendence, where image and emotion coalesce in their own measured logic.