Art Night 2025 - special opening

On Saturday, June 21, Ocean Space is taking part in the 14th edition of Art Night Venezia, the white night of culture, conceived and coordinated by Ca' Foscari University in collaboration with the Venice City Council and the Veneto Region.

For the occasion, the space will be extraordinarily open until 10pm and it will be possible to visit the exhibition "otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua" in an evocative evening atmosphere.

During the evening, visitors will also have the opportunity to explore the installations of the exhibition “otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua” through four themed guided tours led by our team of cultural mediators.

• 8 – 8:20pm | A shipwreck as an immersive display. In-depth exploration of the work “A shipwreck is not a wreck” by Nadia Huggins.
  
  The installation “A shipwreck is not a wreck” transforms the wreck into a dynamic spatial device, where scenography and video create a sensory ecosystem. Huggins overlays projections, focal fades, and acoustic disorientation to destabilize perception, converting the physical space into a metamorphic threshold. The scenography of the wreck makes the audience an integral part of the flow, with a specific structure designed to include, divert, and expand the experience. This analysis reveals how the work merges space, video, and sound into an immersive display that politicizes perception.
  
  

• 8:30 – 8:50pm | The memory of the mountain. The cimarrones and the post-colonial legacy of the Caribbean. In-depth exploration of the work “a call to the ocean” by Tessa Mars.
  
  In her work, Tessa Mars explores the traces of colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade in Haiti and across the Americas. Through the narration of the stories of the cimarrones - escaped enslaved people - and the independent communities they created, the artist develops a reflection on the past and resistance. The guided tour will focus on how Mars uses art to restore visibility to erased histories and create spaces for active remembrance.
  
  

• 9 – 9:20pm | Improvisation~freestyle as a performative act. Transforming a natural phenomenon into artistic practice. In-depth exploration of the work “A shipwreck is not a wreck” by Nadia Huggins.
  
  Studying a natural phenomenon such as the sudden transformation of mountains, Nadia Huggins translates this peculiarity into an artistic practice. The creative process unfolds with mountains as the central subject, exploring their symbolic and visual implications. We will examine how this observation of the landscape is transformed into a visual language capable of evoking change.
  
  

• 9:30 – 9:50pm | Mountains above and below the surface. In-depth exploration of the work “a call to the ocean” by Tessa Mars.
  
  The layers of mountains hold the history of the oceans. Tessa Mars investigates the relationship between land and water, focusing on the concept of the boundary and its artistic expression through a visual exploration of the threshold between elements. The guided tour will highlight how the artist translates these transitional landscapes into forms that speak of identity, memory, and belonging.

No reservation required to visit the exhibitions.

Inside Ocean Space, our cultural mediators are available to answer visitors' questions about the current exhibitions and the history of the Church of San Lorenzo.