The ERES Foundation presents the project “Medusa Alga Laguna” by the Danish conceptual artist Tue Greenfort as a Collateral Event for the first time at the Venice Art Biennale 2022.
Greenfort’s approach of incorporating the ecological condition of an exhibition’s natural environment into his artwork interfaces with a core theme of the foundation—the scientific examination of climate change and species extinction. This makes Venice, with its lagoon a sensitive ecosystem itself, as well as a city particularly affected by climate change, the focus of the foundation’s contribution to the Biennale.
Crisp green glass works hang from the ceiling, while delicate paper tondi reveal filtered traces of algae from the Venice Lagoon. Medusa (jellyfish) sculptures from Murano´s glass workshops float in the exhibition space, plaster casts of beach sections concentrate on the coast as a biozone, whereas extracts of local newspapers elucidate the current environmental state of Venetian waters.
Website: www.labiennale.org
Location: Calle Stretta de Ca’ Sarasina, Venice
Schedule: until November 1, 2022
