Tender Decay 温柔的衰变｜徐丝易对话展呈现于威尼斯美院

威尼斯讯——2026年10月9日至21日，马尔盖拉堡第36展馆举办《Tender Decay（温柔的衰变）》展览。这是一场源于两位当代年轻艺术家之间对话与视觉交织的展览：一位是华裔美国艺术家 Edie Xu（2000年出生），毕业于芝加哥艺术学院（School of the Art Institute of Chicago）；另一位是Barbara Rosita Raimondo（2001年出生），目前活跃于威尼斯美术学院的艺术环境中。

本次展览由威尼斯美术学院asia.program 项目主办。该项目是一个国际研究计划，由策展人傅森博士、Paolo Fraternali 教授以及学院院长 Riccardo Caldura 教授共同协调，并与受学院委托负责第36展馆展览空间的 Stefano Mancini 教授合作举办。

From 9 to 21 October 2026, Pavilion 36 at Forte Marghera will host Tender Decay, an exhibition experience born from the dialogue and visual intertwining between two young artists on the contemporary scene: Chinese-American Edie Xu (2000), trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Barbara Rosita Raimondo (2001), active at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. 

The exhibition is promoted by asia.program ABAV — an international research program coordinated by curator Fu Sen, Professor Paolo Fraternali and the Director of the Academy, Professor Riccardo Caldura — in collaboration with Professor Stefano Mancini, appointed by the Institution to curate the Pavilion 36 Space.

▲《生物泡沫（2）》，吹制玻璃烧瓶、康普茶、红茶、糖、金属板

Bio foam (2)，Blown glass flask, kombucha, black tea, sugar, metal board，2026

展览路径与痕迹的诗学

The Exhibition and the Poetics of Traces

Tender Decay （温柔的衰变）邀请观众以参与性的目光进入一段关于身体与物质边界的探索，并以此为观察点，感知留存与消解之间不断发生的变化。

“也许，存在所留下的并不只有它自身。当某种事物缺席，当它不再能够被完整地讲述，我们便需要将自己托付给痕迹与碎片。”

——傅森，展览策展人

展览通过一系列无声的回响展开：从“氧化色彩留下的痕迹与沉积的表面”，到“由接触所引起的变形，以及一种已无法辨认其来源的气味”。

在一个习惯于通过完整的存在来确认现实的时代，本次展览试图追问空缺：当手、身体或记忆逐渐消失，当物品失去原有的功能，甚至失去自己的名字，会发生什么？

Tender Decay invites visitors to engage with a journey along the shifting boundary between body and matter, offering a vantage point from which to observe the oscillations between persistence and dissolution.

“Perhaps existence leaves behind more than itself. When something is missing and can no longer be recounted in its entirety, we must turn to traces and fragments.”

— Fu Sen, curator of the exhibition

The exhibition unfolds like an exchange of silent echoes between "the trace of an oxidized color and a sedimented surface," between "a deformation caused by contact and a smell whose origin can no longer be recognized."

In an age accustomed to recognizing reality only through full presence, the exhibition interrogates emptiness: what happens when the hand, the body, or the memory disappear, when objects lose their function and even their name?

▲《生物泡沫（2）》，吹制玻璃烧瓶、康普茶、红茶、糖、金属板，2026年

Bio foam (2)，Blown glass flask, kombucha, black tea, sugar, metal board，2026

▲《雾（停滞之后）》，玻璃、金属杆，2026年

Mist (de-stalled)，Glass, metal rod，2026

无论是在 Edie Xu 的创作中，还是在 Barbara Rosita Raimondo 的艺术实践中，现实都不会以完整的面貌显现，而是在碎片之中逐渐显露。唯有通过一种无声的放手，物体才能获得新的形态。与此同时，它仍与自身原初的物质性保持联系——这种物质性沉重而难以摆脱，无法被完整地重新寻回，却也不可能彻底失去。

在这一过程中，痕迹成为记录消失进程的关键。艺术作品不再只是简单的再现，而转化为一种个人与集体共同使用的工具：借此接近某种曾经存在的事物，捕捉它经过之后留下的一切，在时间将其彻底抹去之前。

In both Edie Xu’s and Barbara Rosita Raimondo’s practices, reality never reveals itself in its entirety; instead, it emerges through fragments. Only through a quiet act of relinquishment does the object assume a new form, remaining bound to an original matter that is cumbersome and impossible to recover fully, yet equally impossible to lose.

In this process, the trace becomes the essential means of registering disappearance. The artwork ceases to be a mere representation and becomes a tool—both individual and collective—for approaching a presence and apprehending what remains in its wake, before time erases it entirely.

▲《负重》，陶瓷、玻璃、羊绒，2026年

In weight，Glass, wax, light，2026

▲《生物泡沫（1）》，吹制玻璃烧瓶、康普茶、红茶、糖、金属、蜡，2026年

Bio foam (1)，Blown glass flask, kombucha, black tea, sugar, metal, wax，2026

▲ 策展人傅森给威尼斯美术学院院长Riccardo Caldura 讲解Edie Xu的作品

Curator Fu Sen explains Edie Xu’s work to Riccardo Caldura, Director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.

展览现场

Exhibition site

展览中的其他创作与视觉形象

Exhibition Installations and Visual Identity

影像装置：展览期间将持续呈现一件由 Nicola Zalambani 构思并创作的环境影像作品。Zalambani 是一位正在威尼斯美术学院接受艺术训练的视觉艺术家。

平面设计：展览的视觉识别系统与整体平面设计由Chiara Christina Baumgärtel 负责。她目前就读于威尼斯美术学院插画与漫画硕士课程，同时在威尼斯 IUAV 大学修读传播学相关课程。

Video installation: Throughout the exhibition, an ambient video work conceived and produced by Nicola Zalambani, a visual artist currently undertaking his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, will be presented.

Graphic design: The exhibition’s visual identity and graphic design have been developed by Chiara Christina Baumgärtel, a student in the Academy’s second-cycle Master’s programme in Illustration and Comics, who is also enrolled in the Communication programme at Iuav University of Venice.

asia.program ABAV 项目介绍

The asia.program ABAV Project

asia.program 是一个国际平台与研究团队，在意大利美术学院体系中具有独特的定位。

该项目由威尼斯美术学院发起，致力于推动当代艺术研究与艺术教育。一方面，通过与中国同类艺术院校开展直接的跨文化交流，促进不同文化背景之间的沟通；另一方面，将东方艺术家的实践与在威尼斯接受艺术教育的年轻人才置于同一交流语境中，推动他们的成长，并帮助他们融入当代视觉传播领域。

asia.program is an international platform and research group that occupies a distinctive position within the landscape of Italian Academies of Fine Arts. Promoted by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the programme fosters contemporary artistic research and education through direct intercultural exchanges with partner institutions in China, while also bringing artists from Asia into dialogue with emerging talents studying in Venice. In doing so, it supports their artistic development and facilitates their integration into the field of contemporary visual communication.

展览信息与鸣谢

Exhibition Information and Acknowledgements

展览名称：《Tender Decay（温柔的衰变）》

艺术家： Edie Xu、Barbara Rosita Raimondo

影像装置： Nicola Zalambani

平面设计： Chiara Christina Baumgärtel

策展人：傅森（Fu Sen）、Paolo Fraternali 教授

机构指导： Riccardo Caldura 教授（院长）

展览空间管理： Stefano Mancini 教授

主办推广： asia.program – ABAVenezia

展览地点：意大利威尼斯马格拉堡（Forte Marghera）36号展馆

展览时间： 2026年10月9日至21日

Title: Tender Decay

Artists: Edie Xu, Barbara Rosita Raimondo

Video installation: Nicola Zalambani

Graphic design: Chiara Christina Baumgärtel

Curators: Fu Sen and Prof. Paolo Fraternali

Institutional supervision: Prof. Riccardo Caldura, Director

Exhibition space management: Prof. Stefano Mancini

Promoted by: asia.program – ABAVenezia

Venue: Pavilion 36, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy

Dates: 9–21 October 2026

鸣谢以下个人与团队

Thank you to the following individuals and teams

董亚仙（澳大利亚中国艺术基金会创始人与CEO） / Yashian Schauble, Australia China Art Foundation Founder and CEO

Francesca Tombolini and MaestriHaus Co./ 弗朗切斯卡·通博利尼与MaestriHaus 公司

Orovetro Glass, Murano, Venice / Orovetro 玻璃工坊，意大利威尼斯穆拉诺岛

Francesca London、MaestriHaus Co.

威尼斯飞狮当代 / Winged Lion Contemporary, Venice

艺术家

Artist

徐丝易（Edie Xu），常驻纽约与北京的跨媒介艺术家。她的创作探索时空二元性，汲取考古学、地理哲学与身体记忆的思想，探讨保存的议题与衰败美学。创作过程中，材料之间相互拉扯，构筑一处孕育之地，永恒与短暂在此共生。她引导观众思考人体如何关联空间与结构，物质如何映照关怀、社群与怀旧的体系。

本科毕业于芝加哥艺术学院美术系。重要展览包括：北京蔡锦空间《袅绕》；美国纽约BANK Mab Society《To Save Or To Destroy》；上海香格纳画廊《Limited Intentionality》；北京公社《Out of Time》。近期驻留项目：墨西哥城Radio 28 CS、美国缅因州Haystack艺术驻留。

Edie Xu is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York and Beijing. Edie’s work explores the duality of time and space. Inspired by archaeology, geo-philosophy, and bodily memory, her work engages the politics of preservation and the aesthetics of decay. In these processes of making, the tension between materials creates an incubation where permanence and impermanence coexist. She invites the viewers to consider how bodies relate to space and structure, and how material reflects systems of care, community, and nostalgia.

She received her BFA degree in Fine Art from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected exhibitions include Intra, Cai Jin Space, Beijing, CN, To Save Or to Destroy, BANK Mab Society, New York, US, Limited Intentionality, Shanghart, Shanghai, CN, Out of Time Beijing Commune, Beijing, CN. Recent residencies include Radio 28 CS, Mexico City, Mexico and Hay Stack, Maine, United States.