The exhibition, hosted in the rooms of Palazzetto Tito, is a series of reflections on water as a contradictory element; an element that both supports and sweeps away, preserves and destroys, remembers and submerges for ever and that radically changes perceptions of space, light and bodies. The project originates from research carried out a little more than a year ago by the artistic duo, inspired by the great French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and linked in particular to experiments he conducted at the beginning of the 60s in an underwater habitat on the seabed off the coast of Sudan. The nature of Cousteau's experience and the artists' adaptation of it become a cue to thinking rationally about the very concept of depth and abyss, in both the physical and psychological sense. The artists have proceeded with their re-interpretation and re-activation amidst a collection of material and documents linked to the experiment, developing it in different directions (photography, drawings, videos and sculpture installations), with a gradual, constant jump in scale. Thus, the exhibition, using the domestic spaces of Palazzetto Tito, aims to suggest a possible and poetic portrayal of the relationship between underwater world and terra firma, inviting reflections on the ephemeral perception of space, on water as display, on the relationship between fiction and reality and on the actual nature of the work of art and its setting in the museum. In this way the artists reveal the interest for the relationship between context and content, space and exhibition, work of art and spectator. And, in fact, the venue of the exhibition, a building that emerges from the water and is often flooded – as can happen only in Venice –, takes on a particular significance.