"My whole life is messed up, geographically," said Paola Pivi recently. The Italian artist's current home is in Delhi, but her "heart is in Alaska," where she lived and worked until four years ago. "It's a forced exile," she explained, referring to the complicated court proceedings that have left her and her husband no choice but to remain in India following the adoption of their son in 2012.

Pivi's peculiar geographical past is stamped into her work as if on a passport, notably her iconic feathered polar bear sculptures, which speak to her time in Anchorage. And yet, through her large-scale installations and whimsical, carefully staged photographs, Pivi has created a surreal, playful landscape unlike any place on Earth.

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