Beatrice Burati Anderson and Galleria Continua are pleased to present Albedo, a new exhibition by Giovanni Ozzola, curated by Giorgio Galotti and SHEN Qilan, conceived for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
The body of the exhibition, taking place in the gallery spaces located in the San Polo district, focuses on a new video
production and a group of unseen photographic works that establish a close relationship with the architectural structure of the old 14th-century warehouses, whose layout has remained intact.
Albedo is a project conceived as an organism that exploits the architecture of the two exhibition spaces facing each
other across the Rio de la Madoneta canal next to Campo San Polo. The two spaces are visually unified and connected by a boat crossing that transforms the canal into an active threshold between the two sections of the exhibition. This passage offers the audience a unique, immersive, multi-sensory experience.
The exhibition opens with “Dust on my memories”, 2024. The bell, recognized by navigational codes as a “sound
beacon”, asserts a position at sea; on land, it becomes a call and a meeting point. On this occasion, the bells fall silent
and remain still—a visual gesture that opens space for the gaze. From this first space, Matteo (2026) appears: a video installation on an LED wall emerging from one of the water gates, inviting visitors to cross the canal and enter the second space. The exhibition becomes a negotiation between time and space. Matteo is a visual monument—a “moving statue”—depicting a blind archer at the precise moment of release. The gesture, calibrated and never the same twice, shifts attention from physical performance to the perceptual realm, activating a dialogue between an imagined, inner horizon and the real, physical one. After crossing the canal, visitors enter a large, darkened space where a group of works gradually emerges, softly illuminated by natural light filtering through the water gates. Here, a constellation of photographs — Faro 7, una notte di marzo – Venezia (2026) and Candela (2026)—recomposes a setting that oscillates between interior and exterior. La vida y la muerte me están desgastando (2023) and Sunset with Faith further open breaches within the space, leading toward new horizons that subtly reconfigure perception, reinforcing the relationship between soul and sight, between the real and the unreal.
The exhibition unfolds as a journey through thresholds, signals, and orientations, where sound and light are not effects but tools—means through which a position in space and time becomes legible, within a city long perceived as existing beyond both.
The video Matteo is produced with the kind support of In Between Art Film Foundation.
The project was realized with the technical support of Gold Note.