Kourtney Roy, Failed postcards from Napoli, Views of the City, 2025 - Courtesy of the artist and Spot.
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03/21/2026 - 06/30/2026

Spot 
Via Toledo, 66 
 
80134 Napoli NA

 

 
Spot home gallery presents Failed Postcards from Napoli, Kourtney Roy's first solo exhibition in Italy. The project originated in 2025 during an artist residency in Naples, produced and curated by the gallery, the third following Anders Petersen (2022) and Anaïs Tondeur (2024).
Naples, a city perpetually overexposed, calls for a gaze that does not stop at the surface and fractures its sedimented imagery. Kourtney Roy approaches this complexity by doing what is most intrinsic to her practice: she transforms reality into an unstable and ambiguous set, playing with the city's contradictions to generate constructed, disorienting, and quietly surreal situations. Faithful to her visual language—hyperreal colors, theatrical lighting, and dark humour, always suspended between irony and disquiet—Roy stages and embodies fictional personas as a tool of exploration. Her body fragments into a constellation of excessive, grotesque, irreverent, and provocative female characters, inspired by a Neapolitan aesthetic filtered through cinema, popular culture, literature, and the artist's daily observation of the city.