The exhibition features works from Angela Grigolato, Elena Della Corna, Giulia Milani, Noemi Durighello and Stefano Cescon: five young artists that never met a solid society. Born in the ’90s (except for Cescon, born in 1989), they all work in Venice, although none of them is originally from here.

Here’s why the pebble can bounce on water. Because the shape of a droplet is a perfect sphere, that’s why the bug walks on the pond’s surface.
Society is liquid. If you charge the surfaces with the right amount of tension, counterintuitive footholds might surface. Angela Grigolato, Elena Della Corna, Giulia Milani, Noemi Durighello e Stefano Cescon are young artists that never met a solid society.

Born in the ’90s (except for Cescon, born in 1989), they all work in Venice. The city lies in the space of detachment between the real place and the commonplace of stereotypes (which means more real/virtual surfaces and pictures can be incorporated). But it is in the dialectic space of this hiatus that the city can breathe. It can then mutate and transform, as it is never stuck in its immobility.

None of these artists is originally from Venice, which introduces an element of eccentricity coherent with the heterogeneity, contiguity, mixing, overturning, and tensions between solid and liquid (or east and west) that characterize the history of this city since its birth. None of them takes Venice as the subject of their work. The stratifications, the epidermis, the transitions shape to the background, the sedimentations, the concretions, the detachment, and the mutating visual grain are nonetheless present as the heritage that the city left in their practice.