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11/06/2026

Take a glimpse behind Elnara Nasirli’s artwork Whispering Forest part of the collective exhibition AS ABOVE, SO BELOW - Collateral Event of Arte 2026

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Ex church Santi Cosma e Damiano
Giudecca, Venice

10/06/2026

We celebrated World Oceans Day and closed AS ABOVE, SO BELOW, Collateral Event of , curated by & , orgnized by and ideated by , closing event of In Minor Keys with .era.nuova, a meditation in sound that carried us gently between sea and sky, reflection and resonance, tuning in to the frequencies of invisible dimensions, above, below and within… The evening began with a thought-provoking dialogue between and , and naturally flowed into a convivial gathering of kindred souls united by a shared commitment to protecting our planet 🌍🩵🌊

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09/06/2026

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW was never only an exhibition, but a living ecosystem of ideas, encounters, research, and shared imagination. Thank you to everyone who contributed their time, knowledge, creativity, and trust to this journey. May the connections forged here continue to ripple outward ✨🌊

One Ocean Foundation and ZEITGEIST19 are deeply grateful for everyone who was part of it - our incredible artists, collaborators, scientists, researchers, host , exhibition design and production , documentation team .a nourishment and everyone who assisted us in making this possible 🩵🙏🏽

Big thank you to and Trust of Mutual Understanding

Honored to be part of

Special thanks to for closing AS ABOVE, SO BELOW with In Minor Keys, a meditation in sound that carried us gently between sea and sky, reflection and resonance.

08/06/2026

PLESSI
Making waves 🌊🌊🌊

As part of our As Above, So Below curatorial program, we had the pleasure of a private studio visit with pioneer of digital art Fabrizio Plessi, diving deeper into his creative universe.

Breaking rules, making new waves, and transforming water, light, sound, and technology into poetic experience, .plessi reminds us that the ocean is not only a subject, but a force — a mirror of movement, memory, and imagination.

🎥 .a

08/06/2026

Happy World Oceans Day 🩵

Tides or Light: Meadows of the Abyss by Yoko Shimizu

The phrase “No Blue, No Green”, inspired by .sylviaearle, emerges through interaction with biolumiscent marine plankton

Developed through the artistic residence on the ONE Catamaran by and

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
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Fabbrica H3,
Ex church Santi Cosma e Damiano
Giudecca, Venice

05/06/2026

Last days to experience AS ABOVE, SO BELOW, a Collateral Event of La Biennale.

A glimpse into Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale by Marshmallow Laser Feast.

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Fabbrica H3, Ex Church Santi Cosma e Damiano
Giudecca, Venice

Credit: Ersin Han Ersin
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04/06/2026

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
Collateral Event of
On view until June 8 🌊

Requiem for the Caspian, 2024 by
 Short documentary film, single-channel projection. Co-produced by ZEITGEIST19

Requiem for the Caspian observes a coastline in withdrawal and the lives suspended around that disappearance. The Caspian coast is drying out, and fishing villages give way to industrial landscapes. On the remote island of Pirallahi, off the coast of Baku, the inhabitants of an old village await the sea’s return while land grabs continue, with factories, warehouses, and oil rigs advancing over what was once a vibrant underwater ecosystem. As the sea recedes, its spirit persists, glimpsed in motifs that feel almost biblical. The film allows the sea to endure as presence, a force that haunts fishermen and women, and other resident creatures, in a desperate attempt to hold on to stories that are being erased.

The film frames this disappearance not only as environmental collapse but as a form of cultural and physical colonisation, a territory remade by extractive economies, where landscape, narrative, and memory are occupied, renamed, and repurposed.
Projected as a standalone work, Requiem for the Caspian functions as documentary ground; its imagery threads through the installation’s screens, reappearing as source material and later transformed through AI. Film and installation thus operate as two registers of the same testimony: one direct, one re-authored, both tracing what is lost when a sea is reduced to territory.

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Fabbrica H3
Ex church Santi Cosma e Damiano
Campo Cosmo, Giudecca, Venice

Free entry

Monday - Friday
10:00 - 18:00

Image courtesy of the artist.

02/06/2026

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
Collateral Event of
On view until June 8 ✨

Thetis, 2026 by

Holographic artwork, created for As Above, So Below

In Thetis, Andrea Crespi conjures the sea nymph of Greek mythology within a primordial jellyfish
suspended inside a holographic vitrine. The work proposes the abyss as a realm that is not only biological, but also symbolic: a space where myth, memory, and marine life converge. The jellyfish becomes a threshold organism, carrying an ancestral presence that hovers between nature and immateriality, as though the deep sea were itself an archive of origins, apparitions, and latent futures. Between science and myth, natural data and archetype, Thetis emerges not as an image of the sea but as its liquid consciousness—an embodiment of its invisible, profound, and primordial dimension.
Through holographic technology, myth reappears as a contemporary form of apparition, unsettling the boundary between human and non-human, organism and symbol, presence and projection. Set against the frescoed interior, Thetis resonates with the classical pictorial language of the former church, extending the work’s dialogue between myth, apparition, and perception. Technology does not demystify myth here; rather, it becomes the medium through which the sea’s deeper symbolic life returns to view. In this way, Thetis transforms archetype into a post-biological form, where memory,
matter, and image merge in a single perceptual experience of the living.

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Fabbrica H3
Ex church Santi Cosma e Damiano
Campo Cosmo, Giudecca, Venice

Free entry

Monday - Friday
10:00 - 18:00

01/06/2026

Inspired by ongoing exchanges developed through the As Above, So Below podcast series, these dialogues became a living platform for inquiry — sitting around the tree, between whispering forests and waters, moving in circular time, where listening becomes a shared space, a ritual, a mantra.

Intertwining Earth and Ocean, the day invited deeper engagement with the ecological, cultural, and perceptual conditions that define our present, opening a space for reflection, encounter, and new ways of sensing our relationship to the world. Rooted in a shared understanding of our interconnectedness, the conversations also explored our collective responsibility as stewards of the living planet — caring for the ecosystems, cultures, and more-than-human worlds that sustain us, while imagining pathways toward reciprocity, regeneration, and coexistence.

Soon available to listen through the As Above, So Below podcast series 🎧🌿🌊

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
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Fabbrica H3
Santi Cosma e Damiano, Campo Cosmo
Giudecca, Venice

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