On Saturday, Dec. 9, we will exclusively present to the public ‘Split-stream,’ the art project of Chilean-Canadian Rosario Aninat and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe, our latest residents of the year and winners of Open Call 2023.

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Split-streamby Rosario Aninat and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe

The flat and fertile plains of industry and agriculture produce plentitude, but rely upon a series of infrastructures to maintain, to connect. Disruptions and shortcuts comb through the natural temporalities and rhythms of topography. A sluice in the run of things, an aqueduct for the right place and right time. Moments of nestled artifice in a humanist concrete shell between the water and the mountains, echoed from dugged canals, swamp lands, and mountainous straits.

Unearthing infrastructures that cross over and dissect, our collaborative approach isolates and spotlights the sculptural roles within these shared systems. We seamlessly weave these functions into a spatial rhythm within the prevailing industrial architecture, amplifying the collective experience etched into the forms and remnants of our global infrastructure.

‘Split-stream’ weaves threads of this landscape, amplifying distinct moments from particular convergences beginning just a stone’s throw away at Via Due Acque, the adjacent street to Villa Filanda Antonini. A local aqueduct crossed with details of 20th century tombs, their features coalesce and turn into a prototype for a bench. The tempo of the evening sunlight becomes a permanent moment held in the space. The unused wires, like veins of the space, are stripped of their cabling, the copper strands become braided together, reassembled along the perimeter of the space. Waiting to be oxidised, these copper arrangements, thread out the transformation power of the industrial architecture. All gestures of potentiality of an ever-breathing building that keeps present its past and future lifes.

Breaking down the specific site and geography of the warehouse as a compass onto the larger topography of the Veneto with one foot in the mountains and one foot in the water.