Glauque

The exhibition—Glauque—gathers three contemporary voices in sculpture, video, and installation. Glauque (from glaucus, Lat.) refers to an elusive colour between green, blue, and grey—once used to describe the sea’s shifting depths. The term carries with it a sense of ambiguity, suspended beauty, and tonal indeterminacy, mirroring the mist’s intangible presence and the uncertain edges of perception.
In The Galleria Studio space, Marie-Luce Nadal presents performative films and pigment prints on metal, staging the atmosphere as both subject and actor—an emotional, political, and volatile body. Through cloud choreography and elemental experiments, she draws out the weather’s agency as something embodied, contested, and alive.
In The Oyster Alcove, French sculptor Adrien Lagrange unveils Venus in Leo, a new site-specific intervention. Known for large-scale metal works, Lagrange in contrast , turns to fragile, charged forms that hover between marine traces and technological sensorial, revealing the entanglement between matter, memory, and temperature.
Palmalisa Zantedeschi, sculptor of stone and silence, approaches marble and onyx stones not as inert stagnant matter, but as responsive bodies. Through a process of precise subtraction and close listening, she unveils the subtle tension between weight and suspension. Her mastery lies in allowing each stone to guide its own transformation—shaping forms that appear almost weightless to reveal its mineral conjunctions.

The constellation of the shows ‘Into the Mist’ delves into the mystery of the waters and its various natures of the lagoon in Venice unfolding across three spaces at Elisabeth de Brabant Contemporary. It invites Leng Hong, as well as three more artists: Marie-Luce Nadal, Adrien Lagrange, and Palmalisa Zantedeschi, to respond to La Brume (vapour, mist) as a drifting echo of the sea, suspended above the canals, bearing both memory and dream sensations. The exhibition Into the Mist is curated by Elisabeth de Brabant and Anna Shpilko.