Maria Cristina Crespo — Infinito Cabinet | Collateral Event of the 61st

Maria Cristina Crespo — Infinito Cabinet

Infinito Cabinet is an installation by Maria Cristina Crespo presented as a Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia. The project functions as a contemporary Wunderkammer: a multi-material environment that navigates literature, myth, religion and cultural memories to probe Western identity.

Through material juxtapositions and recycled fabrics, Crespo shapes micro-narratives of history using anthropomorphic vessels, stage-like settings, painted backdrops and costumes. The works juxtapose popular traditions and canonical references — from Ovid and Dante to ritual practices and symbols drawn from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas — with an intentionally grotesque aesthetic.

• When: 09/05/2026 - 22/11/2026
• Where: Venice, Castello 2145 – Riva San Biasio
• Opening hours: daily 10:00–19:00; closed on Mondays
• Admission: free
• Organiser: Eclettica Cultura dell'Arte
• Curator: Giusy Caroppo
• Address: Riva San Biasio 2145 - 30122 Venice (VE)
• How to get there: 3 min walk from Arsenale vaporetto stop; 2 min walk from the Naval History Museum
• More info: https://www.ecletticaweb.it

The exhibition offers a cultural response to debates on cancellation and memory, privileging complexity and cross-cultural encounter. Works operate as tools of wonder and investigation, situating Venice as a symbolic landscape between the finite and the infinite.

Visiting Infinito Cabinet means entering an iconographic theatre where time periods and geographies converse — from Indian textiles to Baroque Mexico, from Mithraic cults to Eastern European traditions — producing an exhibitional itinerary that oscillates between memory and imagination.