Opening: the world’heaving breath

The World’s Heaving Breath opened successfully at Fishead Lab on March 5. The exhibition is structured around five “acts,” each presenting works by five groups of artists and lasting for ten days. The first act features the work of Margherita Moscardini, on view from March 5 to March 15, 2026.

We would like to extend our special thanks to the artist Margherita Moscardini for attending the opening, as well as to the curators Yin Shuai and Khemerin Vismara for their curatorial work and support.

We also sincerely thank Marco Scotini, Artistic Director of NABA, for his support. Our gratitude goes to the guests who joined the opening, and all the visitors who attended the event.

This exhibition presents two works by the Italian artist Margherita Moscardini: the sculpture Not as Representation, but as Infrastructure and the video work And Remember that Holes Can Move.

The bronze sculpture installed at the entrance takes the form of the artist’s handwritten text, inviting viewers to approach sculpture from another perspective. Rather than functioning merely as the representation of an image or symbol, it can also be understood as an installation that intervenes in real space and social relations. In Moscardini’s practice, sculpture often operates as a medium capable of activating space and reconnecting people with their surrounding environment.

The video work And Remember that Holes Can Move documents a discussion organized by the artist in 2023 at Ar/Ge Kunst in Bolzano. Legal scholars and researchers from different countries were invited to participate in a closed meeting addressing a central question: whether, within the framework of international law, certain sculptures could be defined as public resources that belong to no national sovereignty and therefore cannot be appropriated.

Through the juxtaposition of sculpture and video, Moscardini’s practice opens new pathways of reflection between art, space, and institutional structures, offering viewers a perspective from which to rethink public space and social relations.

The presentation of Moscardini’s works in this exhibition was made possible with the support of curator Yin Shuai and collector Khemerin Vismara. Yin Shuai proposed the exhibition project under the title The World’s Heaving Breath. The theme reflects his observation of the post-pandemic world as well as his reflections on the current condition of the contemporary art ecosystem: while globalization and neoliberal structures appear to offer ever-expanding possibilities for connection with the world, the increasing concentration of power and capital has simultaneously made the pursuit of freedom and equality more challenging.

From the perspective of collecting, Khemerin Vismara approaches art as a method for understanding the world. By regarding artworks as forms of documentation, his practice seeks to observe and interpret the complex structures that shape contemporary society, bringing an additional perspective to the exhibition.

The artworks in exhibition:

And remember that holes can move

2023

Full HD color video, sound

44’49

Courtesy the artist and Gian Marco Casini Gallery

The film And Remember that Holes Can Move was commissioned by Ar/Ge Kunst in 2023

Speakers Stacy Douglas, Isabel Feichtner, Lawrence Liang, Francesco Palermo, Nora Sternfeld, Alexandra Tomaselli W

Artist direction Margherita Moscardini

Directors of photography Visualite – Tiberio Sorvillo, Luca Guadagnini

Sound recording Audiotek, Bolzano, Italy

Editing Luca Guadagnini

Production Ar/Ge Kunst, Bozen-Bolzano

in the frame of the exhibition And Remember that Holes Can Move, Ar/Ge Kunst, 2023

Curated by Zasha Colah and Francesca Verga

Thanks to Verena Raster, Eurac-Bozen-Bolzano, Anna and Francesco Tampieri

friend Diego Zuelli

Dedicated to the artist Sitt Nyein Aye

Not as representation, but as infrastructure

2024

Bronze

13 x 124 x 1.5 cm

Courtesy the artist and Gian Marco Casini Gallery

Khemerin Vismara collection

Artist:

Margherita Moscardini

(Born Italy. Lives and works in Livorno, IT)

Her works on the relations among transformation processes of urban, social and natural order belonging to specific geographies. She often focuses on abandoned and under demolition, whereby the demolitions’ waste system becomes a paradigm of the local complexities. Her practice favours the process and long-term projects, considering the context as a medium: the existing architecture, the landscape (meant as geo-morphological features) where the material environment is designed on, how the urban plans condition the behaviours of local communities. The context often suggests specific issues, materials and methods of the work, which she carries out through large-scale interventions, drawings, writings, scale models and video-documents.

The World's Heaving Breath

A project by Yin Shuai & Khemerin Vismara

March 5th-15th, Margherita Moscardini

March 19th-March 29th, Bart Houwers

April 9th-April 19th, Juan Pablo Macías

April 23th-May 3rd, Liu Ding

May 7th-May 17th, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci

Presented by Fishead Lab

Graphic Design: Wang Yuxuan

Project Coordinator: Zhou Ziqi

Communications: Liu Ziwei

Exhibition Installation: Tan Di