Venice crossroads of peoples, multicultural Venice, Venice leads to and from the world. Ferzan Ozpetek immersed himself in the city, became part of it, chose to experience it with different eyes and made a unique portrait of it: Kasia Smutniak in apnea, shot among the projections of the most famous pictorial representations of the city, of its unmistakable views . Venetika is an immersive journey where the video is reflected in a pool of water, while the scent of the lagoon is perceived in diffusion, accompanied by the music of Sezen Aksu.

A magic box embodies Ferzan Ozpetek's visionary Venice, a project created for the 58th Biennale of Art. Venice is a woman immersed in water. The liquid and opaque moving surface of the sea seems to act as a screen and on her face and body pass the images, filtered by the water, of the Materials in which the city took shape when the liquid became solid and suddenly became marble, wood, rope and metal.