MINORIA: Shape of Breath is a site-specific installation created for A Space Gallery in Venice and presented as part of The Venice Glass Week 2026.

Glass remembers.

It remembers fire before it remembers form. It remembers breath before it becomes an object. It remembers movement long after movement has come to an end.

Every glass vessel carries within itself the invisible history of its own making. Heat, gravity, air and human gesture remain present in the material, even when they can no longer be seen. Glass is never entirely still. It continues to hold the memory of transformation.

Suspended within a metal network, everyday glass objects are released from their original function. They no longer speak as domestic vessels or decorative forms. They become witnesses.

Some originate from Polish glassworks that no longer exist. Others come from workshops where exceptional traditions continue despite increasing fragility. Together they preserve more than material. They preserve ways of making, ways of working and ways of transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next.

The metal network does not simply support the objects. It reveals the invisible structures upon which every act of creation depends: relationships, labour, memory, technology and care. What appears delicate is sustained by an entire world that often remains unseen until it begins to disappear.

Beneath the suspended forms stretches a field of sand — the origin of glass and, at the same time, a reminder that every form remains inseparable from the possibility of its own dissolution. Nothing here is presented as permanent. Everything exists in a state of temporary balance between emergence and disappearance.

Created specifically for the intimate space of A Space Gallery, the installation invites visitors to move slowly through a landscape of suspended relationships. Glass is encountered not as an object to be admired, but as a material carrying memory — of breath, of work, of time and of worlds whose continuity can no longer be taken for granted.

Presented in Venice, where glass remains inseparable from the cultural identity of the city, the installation becomes both a reflection on material and a quiet act of responsibility towards the fragile traditions that continue to shape it.

What is suspended here is not only glass, but the memory of a world whose existence can no longer be taken for granted.