THEY ARE BEFORE AND AFTER

A site-specific water shrine, where liquids slowly drip into ceramic reflecting pools depicting insects, amoeba, amphibians and micro-organisms, each nestled beneath a green light ring that hovers like a halo.

The installation conjures a ritual space within Spazio Volta's former stone underground fountain, inviting the practice of presence. A conversation between elements, materials and mythologies that mirrors the rythm of the swamp itself: cyclical, dense, oracular.

In their work, Venus Jasper cultivates a practice rooted in the abundant depths of the swamp - a site of decay, rebirth, and erotic entanglement. Their work channels the slow, sensual logic of wetlands to envision post-capitalist futures grounded in ecosexuality, reclaiming the swamp not as a place of peril or abjection but as a slippery yet sacred terrain that rejects extraction and exploitation. Here, matter is animated, boundaries are porous, and the swamp is not a backdrop but a co-creator. A moist, breathing entity that dissolves separation and offers a messy, intimate path towards reworlding.

In this liminal ecosystem - neither fully mineral nor water - the artist evokes a metaphor for queer embodiment and ecological intimacy.

—  Zoë De Luca Legge, curator of Pushing Up Daisies, Spazio Volta, Bergamo (IT).


^{Installation is made with Ceramic bowls, Iron tripods, Asphalt, Sand, Neon Led, Watering system.}

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