For Biennale Arte 2026, Alberto Scodro invited Olivari to take part in EMERSASOMMERSA, the installation created for the Venice Pavilion. In dialogue with the artist, the door handle transcends its functional role and becomes a symbol of passage, relationship and discovery: the act of opening turns into a metaphor for access to new worlds, cultures and visions. The installation creates a dialogue between art and design in which the gesture of opening becomes an experience of connection, transformation and discovery.

Alberto Scodro (Marostica, 1984) lives and works in Nove. After an initial training as a restorer, he graduated in Visual and Performing Arts at IUAV University of Venice and further developed his practice through international residency programmes in Venice, Helsinki, Liège, Portorož and Luxembourg. His research moves between sculpture, installation and site-specific interventions, exploring the relationship between space, matter and processes of transformation. The works originate from fusions, sedimentations and aggregations of heterogeneous materials — sands, glass, metals, enamels and pigments — giving shape to structures suspended between natural and artificial dimensions. Within Scodro’s practice, matter never appears fixed or definitive, but rather as a living organism crossed by time, energy and continuous possibilities of transformation.

On the occasion of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the Venice Pavilion presents Note Persistenti, a curatorial project by Giovanna Zabotti with the participation of Denis Isaia and Cesare Biasini Selvaggi. In dialogue with In Minor Keys, the theme of Biennale Arte 2026 conceived by Koyo Kouoh, the exhibition invites visitors to listen to the city’s deepest frequencies: those emerging from its foundations, from the memories of its inhabitants, from transformations of matter and from the invisible relationships that run through Venice. The Pavilion unfolds as a sequence of environments dedicated to different symbolic dimensions of the city, submerged, domestic, mythological and collective, transforming Venice into a landscape shaped by stratifications, presences and persistent traces. It is within this submerged dimension that Alberto Scodro’s project takes shape, through a reflection on matter, time and what normally remains hidden beneath the surface.

At Biennale Arte 2026, Olivari door handles enter Alberto Scodro’s project as fragments of a cultural stratification built over time through dialogue with architects and designers from different eras and sensibilities. Not a single language, but a plurality of interpretations of the act of opening, through which the handle becomes a point of connection between body, space and architecture. Within the installation, the collections coexist as traces belonging to different times: rigorous forms, sculptural signs, essential surfaces and design gestures expressing different ways of understanding architecture and its relationship with matter. In dialogue with Scodro’s research, these presences become fragments of a landscape suspended between natural and artificial dimensions, where gesture, space and matter interact within a single visual narrative.