In Medio Lagunae — Solo Exhibition, Venice, 19 November–21 December 2025

In Medio Lagunae marks Riccardo Rizzetto’s first solo exhibition in Venice — a constellation of works that examine the Lagoon as a living archive of memory, erosion, and ecological fragility.

Rooted in long-term research across the Venetian Lagoon, the exhibition unfolds as a spatial and material reflection on how landscapes are shaped by overlapping forces: agricultural histories, infrastructural impositions, industrial transformations, and the quiet persistence of more-than-human agencies.

At its centre is the Purple Artichoke of Sant’Erasmo, approached not as an icon of tradition but as a transmitter — a vegetal sensor through which frictions between care and control, visibility and erasure, cultivation and extraction become legible.
From this entry point, Rizzetto articulates a wider lagoonal grammar: a system of soils, waters, sediments, and infrastructures that continuously remake one another.

Across the exhibition, works such as Synthetic Campi, Souvenir Lagunae, Extractive Icons, Membrana Lagunae, Soil Chromatographies, and Hydraulic Mythologies translate these dynamics into images, materials, and spatial gestures.
Synthetic grass evokes Venetian campi as historical artifices; sculptural forms replay the tension between erosion and repair; chromatographies reveal chemical and metabolic traces; photographic and sonic works register the Lagoon as a resonant body shaped by human and more-than-human temporalities.

Rather than offering a stable picture of the Lagoon, In Medio Lagunae proposes a shifting, situated reading — one in which sedimented histories, infrastructural scars, and fragile ecologies coexist in constant negotiation.
It is an invitation to listen, observe, and inhabit the Lagoon not as landscape but as a medium of relation: porous, contested, and persistently alive.

The exhibition forms part of Rizzetto’s ongoing research within the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he investigates the Venetian Lagoon through practices of fieldwork, material analysis, and critical spatial inquiry.

Co-curated by Nikolaos Akritidis and Yasmine Helou
In support of We Are Here Venice
Venue Castello 2432, Fondamenta dei Penini, Venice

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