Passaggi

2026 | Murano Illumina il Mondo, Piazza San Marco, Venice

Passaggi reinterprets the architectural language of Venice's bridges through a suspended composition of glass and light. Developed from Felekşan Onar's 41X series (2018), the installation transforms the bridge from a symbol of connection and passage into a fragmented, luminous structure.

Each glass element represents half of a bridge, an incomplete form that acquires new meaning through repetition and collective arrangement. Suspended in two layers beneath a single arch, the fragments generate shifting geometries of solids and voids, evoking the continuous movement, encounters, and crossings that define Venice.

Installed beneath the historic arcades of the Procuratie Vecchie, the work establishes a dialogue between architectural memory and contemporary glassmaking. Concealed illumination reveals the material's transparency, texture, and depth, while the interplay of individual fragments suggests a larger continuity. Through this transformation, Passaggi reflects on the relationship between fragmentation and connection, structure and light, permanence and transition.