Sonài

"Sonài" is a multimedia exhibition by the Venice-based art collective Mollified (Cosima Montavoci and Lorenzo Passi). Through glassmaking, they explore the fragility of a society shaped by taboos and cultural bigotry. Seeking to subtly raise awareness of issues that are often marginalized, this exhibition is a reflection on "invisible illnesses", conditions that are often dismissed as psychosomatic despite being undeniably real. The suspended sculptures embrace these illnesses, merging with pill-like forms. Bound by iron plates, they suggest both support and restraint.

Echoing the Venetian word for "sound" while recalling the slur "crazy," Sonài is an interactive sound installation: Continuous borborygmi and deep, visceral rumblings emerge from the vitreous medium, that intensify as visitors approach and touch the artworks, making, in a way, the unseen perceptible and seen.

Soundscape by quatrieme____payasage

Exhibition curated by Yasmine Helou

With the support of Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung