In “Lost Cinema Lost,” the Galleria Civica in Modena brought together recent works by two artists in a unified presentation. Runa Islam showed four recent films, two made for this occasion, while Tobias Putrih created a pair of environments that functioned as screening rooms for two of Islam’s films, as well as a light installation presented in tandem with another of her films.

The show began with Putrih’s Screening Space Related to What’s a Thought Experiment, Anyhow? by Runa Islam, 2007–2008, a structure created from simple cardboard walls held together by colored tape, illuminated from above