In her 2012 book of poetry Sea and Fog, the late artist Etel Adnan dedicated the first section, “Sea,” to the sculptor Simone Fattal, her longtime partner, and the second section, “Fog,” to the poet Brandon Shimoda. The poems are about life and death as seen through the forces, shifts, and dissolutions of nature—the flow of water, its suspension into the atmosphere. These metaphors provide a point of departure for the exhibition “Thus Waves Come in Pairs.” Monumental glass and ceramic sculptures by Fattal and installations by the Berlin-based artists Álvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj take aim at the anti-LGBTQ+ stance of Italy’s right-wing government. —Elena Clavarino