My Littoral Zone: Floria Tosca
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Floria Tosca’s exhibition, My Littoral Zone, reimagines the Wunderkammer not as a physical space, but as a psychological one. Her practice—steeped in precise draughtsmanship and expressive mark-making—charts the vast terrain of the self. A gifted artist and medical doctor, Tosca lays bare the delicate architecture of the mind: its dark corners, its frailties, its wonders.
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Ralph Hobbs
June, 2025
The Wunderkammer is a curious concept. It speaks to humanity’s enduring desire to bring order to chaos—to curate, classify, and create meaning in a world that so often resists it. Originating in the 16th-century Renaissance, these so-called "cabinets of wonder" were eclectic gatherings of the strange and the macabre: natural oddities, relics of the ancient world, and artefacts of human ingenuity and error. From these early, eccentric collections, one can trace many of the fundamental structures inherent to modern science and philosophy.
Floria Tosca’s exhibition, My Littoral Zone, reimagines the Wunderkammer not as a physical space, but as a psychological one. Her practice—steeped in precise draughtsmanship and expressive mark-making—charts the vast terrain of the self. A gifted artist and medical doctor, Tosca lays bare the delicate architecture of the mind: its dark corners, its frailties, its wonders. This exhibition is a deeply personal tribute to her late therapist, Dr Thomas Stanley—the one who, over many years, helped her curate and navigate the complex interior of her mind. The title refers to the zone where the conscious and the unconscious overlap—a place where the intentions of the subconscious mind become actionable in our awakened consciousness.
Beautiful handblown glass—transparent, yet solid—is juxtaposed throughout the exhibition with paintings and found curiosities. They mimic the building blocks of a mind that seeks the connection we, as humans, inherently crave. In Tosca’s hands, the Wunderkammer becomes something else entirely—it is not a shrine to objects, but rather a celebration of memory, human frailty, and ultimately, the hope that healing brings.
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Works
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Floria ToscaCabinet of Disappointments - Depression #2, 2024-25Blown glass36 x 15cm Dimensions variableSold -
Floria ToscaCabinet of Disappointments - Depression #1, 2024-25Borosilicate glass and sheep wool13 x 12cm Dimensions variableSold -
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Floria ToscaCabinet of Near Misses - Anger #1, 2024-25Blown glass on found glass plinth22 x 12cm dimensions variableSold -
Floria ToscaCabinet of Near Misses - Anger #2, 2024-25Furnace glass3 to 5cm long dimensions variableSold -
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Floria ToscaCabinet of Near Misses - Bargaining #7, 2024 - 25Borosilicate glass10 x 3cm dimensions variableSold -
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Floria ToscaCabinet of Near Misses - Denial #2, 2024-25Blown glass5 x 22cm dimensions variableSold -
Floria ToscaCabinet of Near Misses - Denial #3, 2024-25Borosilicate glass12 x 3cm dimensions variableSold -
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Floria ToscaCabinet of Near Misses - Denial #7, 2024-25Borosilicate glass3 to 5cm long dimensions variableSold -
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Floria ToscaCabinet of Trusted Cures #4, 2024-25Borosilicate glass10 x 22cm Dimensions variableSold -
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Floria ToscaDominic, 2025Acrylic on board20cm x 30cmSold -
Floria ToscaEugenia, 2025Acrylic on board45cm x 50cmSold -
Floria ToscaGossamer, 2025Acrylic on board30cm diameterSold -
Floria ToscaGuardian of the subconscious, 2025Waterbased paint and pencil on board142 x 63xmSold -
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Floria ToscaSimona, 2025Acrylic on board45cm x 50cmSold -
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Floria ToscaTotem of Cognitive Protection, 2025Blown glass and ceramic. Wooden plinth.39 x 20cm Dimensions variableSold -
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