Sal Venezia Project
The group proposes to create a site specific and solar driven sculpture/device that will produce salt by evaporating a field of seawater taken from the Venetian Lagoon. The work will take advantage of the natural topography of the City and in particular the island of La Certosa, the high level of unfiltered sunlight, the salt sea water and the shallow (1 metre) tidal reach of this part of the Adriatic coast.
The work has a kinetic and a time based component and it is designed to evaporate and dry out a contained floating field of seawater at low tide and then re-inundate the field when the tide comes in again.
The artwork references and seeks to engage intimately with the unique material nature of the Venetian landscape/seascape, its history and the commercial growth of the City in the post Roman era. The work sets out to re-invoke the ancient processes involved in the separation of mineral and fluid components using new technology and putting to work the natural elements of low tidal reach, shallow saline water and powerful sunlight which enabled the Venetians to develop a powerful economy built upon the production of the commodity of salt.
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