![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Fólego](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/15f858dfd9cdb39c4d7fb79a0706aae6d7daa288-1500x1000.jpg?w=800)
Bortolami is pleased to present a three-person exhibition entitled First lines, like first dates, or the first bite of dessert, can be deceptive, organized by Christine Messineo. The title of this exhibition is taken from a text by Ann Beattie in which she discusses the inherent difficulty of beginnings, the first line. Where to start? Beattie nullifies the issue of first impressions by allowing her beginnings to remain elliptical, making the encounter unstable. The reader enters a story mid-conversation, mid-scenario. In this exhibition Ann Veronica Janssens, Kitty Kraus and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané present works where the encounter is not the reveal. First looks cannot be relied upon.
Works
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Fólego](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/15f858dfd9cdb39c4d7fb79a0706aae6d7daa288-1500x1000.jpg?w=800)
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled I](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/168dce0552cba331b1b2709c3c83629c720f3139-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
I, 2014
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Bark IV](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/37632cedb07ee1891cb488fe223af9ee188cf894-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Bark IV, 2014
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Magic Mirror Pink](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/b25a4f35f728109907f30b9ea9895b1d3b629e6a-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Magic Mirror Pink, 2013
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Bark II](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/51080ec559aa0d5ac0770cbd8d491a48fd660159-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Bark II, 2014
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Bark III](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/7cb886764ed266463f719fad3b6c389e4c168c05-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Bark III, 2014
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Disque vert](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/52923f9535277e772e0c79064a0a6381cf78d109-1500x1000.jpg?w=800)
Disque vert, 2013
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Bark I](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/e919fa660b6b2298820ce4d843b1187dd4a07f36-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Bark I, 2014
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled IPE 130](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/ded2040a00894e60124a8bef98f4df00ac73444d-1500x1000.jpg?w=800)
IPE 130, 2014
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (Light Box)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/23bb18f25e2da87f43b05bc1a5ced2d43b9a381f-1500x1000.jpg?w=800)