Discover with us the works commissioned and produced for CANICULA, the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties”

Set in a fictional future when Russia’s current war against Ukraine is already over, @yaremaandkhimei’s video installation “Wishful Thinking” (2026) unfolds as a sequence of four tableaux where elderly Russian soldiers variously regret, cover up or ignore their roles and responsibilities. The soldiers’ parts are performed by Ukrainian actors whose careers were built on playing characters from Russian literature and drama in the theatres of Soviet Ukraine.

In this ambiguous mise-en-scène, speech and silence follow shifting configurations, from forms of justification in which responsibility appears diffused and absorbed into the logic of a system, to moments where language falters or drifts into incoherence, where speech moves toward confession without reaching resolution, all the way to states suspended in the proximity of death, between unconsciousness and lucidity, which resist comprehension.

The work approaches victimhood as a position defined by a demand for acknowledgment that remains unfulfilled, just as the end of violence and aggression feels like an ever-shifting horizon. Drifting between staging and testimony, propaganda and truth, collective history and personal memory, what emerges from this unreliable storytelling is a suspended field where the possibility of future repair remains uncertain and deferred, and the only certainty seems to be the banality of evil in the present.

Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, CANICULA is open at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

Scenography by @2050.plus

Images credit: 1, 4) Installation view of CANICULA, courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film, photo © Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / @marcocappellettistudio; 2-3) Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Wishful Thinking, 2026. Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film for the exhibition CANICULA, 2026. Courtesy of the artists; Fondazione In Between Art Film; @galeriepoggi ...

Discover with us the works commissioned and produced for CANICULA, the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties”

Over the past decades, the Arctic permafrost has lost one meter of ground each year. As it melts, it reveals bodies from the Pleistocene Epoch that appear frozen in time. Buried in ice for millennia, these remains have been prevented from decaying, sometimes with fur, skin, and internal organs intact. Jarkov is a remarkably well-preserved woolly mammoth who died 20,000 years ago. Upon discovery, he was extracted and relocated as a single, massive 23-ton block of frozen soil and surrounding sediments, with only two visible tusks protruding from it. Carved out of the permafrost in northern Siberia, a subterranean network of tunnels now holds Jarkov, where a constant temperature of –12°C stops him from thawing out

@maya_watanabe_’s film “Jarkov” (2026) is shot within this underground space, where the camera moves unhurriedly, carefully panning its frozen passages together with the few visible patches of Jarkov and other mammoths’ remains, such as bones and molars, preserved there. The slow pace and macroscopic definition, however, do not ensure the legibility of the scene. In this enigmatic atmosphere, caught between visibility and uncertainty, exposure and concealment, preservation and decomposition, the artist creates an embodied experience of a space and a time that predate and exceed the human lifespan, situating the viewer before a scenario that resists cognitive grasp.
Sound design by @robinrimbaud

Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, CANICULA is open at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

Scenography by @2050.plus

Images credit: 1-2) Installation view of CANICULA, courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film, photo © Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / @marcocappellettistudio; 3-4) Maya Watanabe, Jarkov, 2026. Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, co-produced by @moriartmuseum with additional support from @mondriaanfonds, for the exhibition CANICULA, 2026. Courtesy of the artist; Fondazione In Between Art Film; @liviabenavidesgaleria; @tegenboschvanvreden ...

Discover with us the works commissioned and produced for CANICULA, the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties”

The narrative of @buddhathugtuo’s “The Experimental Paradigm of Ownership and Autonomy” (2026) revolves around the fictional story of Qū (the Chinese word for “torso”), a disabled woman who is part of a left-wing collective of activists from China. Qū is preparing a performance piece based on the experience of her own body, and becomes increasingly interested in the legacy of Gōng (“limb”), a founder of the organisation who has disappeared for no apparent reason. During studio rehearsals for the upcoming performance, Qū seeks creative inspiration through visual histories and documents relating to the representation of the body. In the organisation’s archives, she unexpectedly discovers Gōng’s old audio logs, which will prove instrumental in helping her become aware of the ideological contradictions within the organisation and in discovering the cover-up behind Gōng’s departure. Her performance, “The Experimental Paradigm of Ownership and Autonomy,” will serve as a manifesto for her intellectual awakening. The two-channel video installation combines the artist’s own video material with footage appropriated from the mass media, surveillance cameras and political propaganda. Here, the fragility of the human body becomes a metaphor for the heterogeneity of collective memory, while past, present and future are seen as being caught in a perennial cycle of control and amnesia, fabricated truths and omissions.

Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, CANICULA is open at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

Scenography by @2050.plus

Images credit: 1, 4) Installation view of CANICULA, courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film, photo © Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / @marcocappellettistudio; 2-3) Wang Tuo, The Experimental Paradigm of Ownership and Autonomy, 2026. Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, and co-produced by @the_soil_collection and @blindspotgallery for the exhibition CANICULA, 2026. Courtesy of the artist; Blindspot Gallery; Fondazione In Between Art Film ...

Discover with us the works commissioned and produced for CANICULA, the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties”

During Serbia’s recent student movement, silent vigils have become an effective mode of resistance against the government. These acts of collective silence are held for 15 minutes: one minute for each person who died in the collapse of a railway station canopy in November 2024. On March 15, 2025, around 300,000 people participated in a silent vigil in Belgrade and, just as it was about to conclude, video recordings show the crowd suddenly dispersing as if fleeing from some invisible yet terrifying force

The following day, the inbox of Earshot – the audio research agency founded and directed by @lawrenceabuhamdan – was flooded with requests from the victims to investigate the event. The team set to work reconstructing the “fugitive sound” at the centre of the attack: a sound whose presence was denied by Serbian and Russian authorities, undetectable to microphones, yet described with striking consistency across more than 3,000 written statements

The video installation “450XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound” stems from the experience of this emergent weaponry deployed against a peaceful civilian crowd. It follows the logic of a silent film, seeking to return the silence that the LRAD stole from the protestors. Through the fragmented yet coherent composition of this chorus of earwitnesses, the work reflects not only on a weapon designed to undermine solidarity and collectivity, but also on the power of silence as a means of resistance

Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, CANICULA is open at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

Scenography by @2050.plus

Images credit: 1, 4) Installation view of CANICULA, courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film, photo © Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / @marcocappellettistudio; 2-3) Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 450XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound, 2026. Still. Courtesy of the artist; Fondazione In Between Art Film; @maureenpaley; @morcharpentier; @sfeirsemlergallery ...

Discover with us the works commissioned and produced for CANICULA, the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties”

@p___staff’s “Terminal Lucidity” (2026) assembles visual, sonic and spatial elements into a single perceptual environment that extends to the adjacent monumental helicoidal staircase. The interplay of light and darkness, sounds and images is a conduit to explore perception as both medium and site, however immaterial and interior.

Sequences of white silhouettes against highly saturated coloured backgrounds, chosen for their capacity to exhaust the eyes, get briefly wedged into the film’s continuous darkness. When the latter reappears, so does the previous silhouette, this time only in our eyes, as an afterimage. A new and inner only reality made of apparitions occurs. Here vision is transformed from passive observation into the active creation of images that pertain to dreams and fantasies. The soundtrack combines collaged sequences of varying musical compositions, from orchestral pieces, to handclaps and ambient sounds recorded in Venice, together with oneiric sections of muffled room tones and distant rings that participate in the work’s dialectics of sensory exhaustion and relief.

The video installation suggests a liminal space between life and death, an uneasy world permeated by sensory deceptions. Here, the artist explores whether a film, let alone reality itself, can take place entirely within the space of optical illusion – in the eye of the viewer, once plunged into darkness.

Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, CANICULA is open at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

Scenography by @2050.plus

Images credit: 1, 3-4) Installation view of CANICULA, courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film, photo © Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / @marcocappellettistudio; 2, 5) P. Staff, Terminal Lucidity, 2026. Still. Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, co-produced by @emmamuseum with support from the @saastamoinenfoundation, for the exhibition CANICULA, 2026. Courtesy of the artist; @commonwealthandcouncil; Fondazione In Between Art Film; @galeriesultana ...

Discover with us the works commissioned and produced for CANICULA, the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties”

Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti’s installation “24 Landscapes + A Vision” (2026) unfolds like a meditative, non-linear, cinematic encyclopaedia, and evokes the optical devices of pre-cinema.

The three-channel video is composed of 24 sequences – in an homage to the 24 frames per second of pre-digital cinema – taken from the past 20 years of the film-makers’ documentary practice, which have seen them engage with different places, communities and archives. Similarly diverse are the temporalities that come together into the story, stretching back from the late 1800s to the present day.

This array of material is re-assembled so as to chart a metaphorical odyssey from destruction to renewal, disregard to protection. Over the course of a day, which feels as intense and emotional as a lifetime, we observe technology playing a pivotal, albeit ambiguous, role in the administration of death and life.

With the critical-poetic approach that characterises their experimental cinema, which is displayed here for the first time in an art context, the work also embarks on a wider reflection on the historical entanglement between technologies of vision and domination. The work thus examines the creation, preservation and interpretation of memory in an effort to explore the impossible neutrality of the production of images and their mediation of history. It also reminds us that living is in itself a form of resistance against destruction.

Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, CANICULA is open at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

Scenography by @2050.plus

Images credit: 1, 4) Installation view of CANICULA, courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film, photo © Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / @marcocappellettistudio; 2-3) Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, 24 Landscapes + A Vision, 2026. Still. Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film for the exhibition CANICULA, 2026. With special thanks to the archive of @eye_film. Courtesy of the artists, Fondazione In Between Art Film ...

Discover with us the works commissioned and produced for CANICULA, the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties”

“Boring Billion” (2026) by @yuyanwang is a hypnotic and fragmented assemblage of different materials drawn from automated industrial processes, online tutorials for the repair of machines, and tech-based environments that connect and interact across platforms. Composed entirely of footage found online, the editing lingers on details, moving almost without orientation across surfaces, textures, residues of heavy industrial machinery. Then, humanoid robotic figures suddenly appear. Their movements hover between learning and instinct, as their forms drift across shifting states, giving way to other mechanical bodies, toward a remote and weightless elsewhere. The soundtrack unfolds as a continuous, droning base, intermittently punctured by the first lines from DeBarge’s All This Love, a song about the healing power of love, sung in a distorted, metallic voice. No clear boundary holds, as machines are increasingly built to mirror living systems, and humans, in turn, adapt their behaviours, environments, and perceptions to mechanised logic. The work traces cycles of optimisation that spiral into overload and decay, while providing disquieting reflections on the over-saturation that drives our contemporary, algorithmically-anchored visual culture. At the same time, it points to the fragility of the technological infrastructures we rely on, exposing their inherent vulnerability.

Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, CANICULA is open at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026

Scenography by @2050.plus

Images credit: 1, 3) Installation view of CANICULA, courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film, photo © Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / @marcocappellettistudio; 2, 4) Yuyan Wang, Boring Billion, 2026. Still. Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, and co-produced by @thevegafoundation, for the exhibition CANICULA, 2026. Courtesy of the artist, Fondazione In Between Art Film ...

Discover with us the works commissioned and produced for CANICULA, the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties”

“Baby I’m Yours, Forever” (2026) by @janisrafa explores the material and metaphorical architectures of the exploitation of both non-human and human bodies, and offers a meditation on the tension between life and death, survival and sacrifice.

Set in a meat refrigeration facility, it encompasses the system of machinery and rooms used for transport, cut, package and storage, all immersed in a saturated artificial glow that heightens the uncanny atmosphere. A sequence of linked allegorical scenes imply the violent oppression of the many by the few. Here, trained bodies reveal themselves as contiguous with carcasses, the nourishing role of milk with depletion, and a feverish dance with slaughter, generating an overwhelmingly cumulative effect that seeks release.

Visually, the work reframes a lineage that resonates with various iconographies of killing and sacrifice, but also with the visceral painterly languages of Chaïm Soutine and Francis Bacon, where flesh becomes a symbolic surface through which mortality, fragility and exposure are rendered visible, and yet the non-human body remains absent. The dense, low-frequency undercurrent of industrial noise is mixed with a disquieting lyrical chorus repeating pledges of subjugation, suggesting the convergence of love and extraction.

Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, CANICULA is open at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 22, 2026.

Scenography by @2050.plus

Images credit: 1, 3) Installation view of CANICULA, courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film, photo © Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / @marcocappellettistudio; 2, 4) Janis Rafa, Baby I’m Yours, Forever, 2026. Still. Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, co-produced by @onassis.foundation and @heretic.films with additional support from @mondriaanfonds, for the exhibition Canicula, 2026. Courtesy of the artist; @callirrhoe_; Fondazione In Between Art Film ...