La luce non vede

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 25, 2025 

from 2PM to 10PM
Exhibition Period: May 25 – September 7, 2025
*Location: Hotel Mediterraneo, Via Oriente 106, Jesolo (VE), Italy
Free admission. 

This spring, Hotel Mediterraneo in Jesolo’s storied Pineta will host its first major contemporary art commission: LA LUCE NON VEDE, a two-person exhibition by Italian artist Vittoria Gerardi and French artist aurèce vettier, curated by Darmo.

This inaugural art project marks the beginning of a cultural transformation within the Hotel, which has been a discreet gem of Venetian hospitality since 1957. The exhibition will unfold across the hotel’s reimagined green spaces, indoor areas, and selected suites, blurring the boundaries between hospitality, art, and nature.

On the Artists & Works

Vittoria Gerardi presents a body of work centred on her long-evolving Latenza project—a reflection on invisibility, transformation, and the in-between states of photographic perception. Included are 8–9 Latenza boxes (wood, enamel, unfixed photographic images), 10 fused glass plates, a new large bronze sculpture, and a group of small bronze works titled Gliommeri, alongside her Latenza publication (M Editions, with special boxed editions) and the book Lexicòn (Paris Delos, with a special edition).

Gerardi’s practice manipulates the instability of photographic time. Her Latenza boxes preserve the latent image, the photographic phase where visibility and invisibility coexist. Each piece is a Schrödinger-like device: unless opened, the image remains indeterminate. This philosophical and material interplay extends to her Gliommeri—sculptural “knots” cast in bronze, which make visible the entanglement and opacity of experience.

aurèce vettier brings 16 paintings from his acclaimed le travail des rêves series, a unique tapestry, and a group of AI-generated botanical forms cast in bronze. These sculptures—imaginary plants translated into matter—extend his ongoing investigations into data, dreams, and fiction. A figure at the intersection of language, science, and art, vettier’s work bridges traditional technique and digital speculation.

A Dialogue of Latency and Light

LA LUCE NON VEDE (“Light Does Not See”) takes its title from the paradox of vision and invisibility. The exhibition is born from a long-distance creative friendship between the artists. As Gerardi describes:

“We met in a latent dimension... our works have always intertwined from afar, and separated from near. When I began Latenza, he introduced me to physics. When he started sculpting his impossible plants, I followed him to the foundry. That’s where I began my Gliommeri.”

This exhibition is not just a convergence of two practices, but a reflection on fiction, nature, and the invisible architectures that shape perception, whether through code, chemistry, memory, or bronze. From speculative botany to unfixed images, LA LUCE NON VEDE proposes a visual ecology rooted in latency, light, and the unknowable.

A New Artistic Chapter for Hotel Mediterraneo

This collaboration marks the Hotel Mediterraneo’s first curated art project, initiating a permanent series of cultural commissions in dialogue with the landscape and the Venetian lagoon. After decades of architectural evolution (including the major transformation in 2022 with panoramic suites and apartments with large terraces overlooking the sea), the Hotel now opens itself to the artistic community, with Jesolo’s Pineta becoming a new point of contact between Venice and contemporary creation.

With Darmo as cultural advisor and curator, the Hotel begins a long-term program to support contemporary art through site-specific installations, artist residencies, and seasonal exhibitions.

Artists' Works (Selected List)

Vittoria Gerardi

• 1 Large Bronze Sculpture

• 4–5 Small Bronze Sculptures (Gliommeri)

• 8–9 Latenza works (wood, enamel, unfixed photographic paper)

• 10 Fused Glass Plates (14cm)

• Latenza Book (M Editions, incl. special edition of 9)

• Lexicòn Book (Paris Delos, incl. special edition of 12)

aurèce vettier

• 16 Paintings from le travail des rêves

• 1 Tapestry

• 4 Bronze Sculptures from AI-generated plant forms