The Venice Festival, with its stunning displays, has once again managed to capture attention. The first experience that visitors encounter is a metal box about chest height, equipped with a lens and two speakers. By looking inside this box, you see your image from a height of about 20 feet. You can see other guests passing by and even a few pigeons underfoot.
An Experience Between Reality and Fantasy
But here comes an interesting moment: when one of these passersby stands next to you for a longer time, your natural instinct is to step back from the lens and see what they want. At this moment, the experience turns into a lynching nightmare. The passerby is neither real nor completely imaginary. They are alive in the box and narrate a story with a heavy French accent that has no place in respectable gatherings.
They tell you that you need to have a lot of time to bend over this lens for several continuous minutes. They hesitantly ask, “Why do people always look inside this box? What do they hope to see? This is not reality.”
The Message of the Venice Festival
This festival encompasses everything from audacious themes to serious issues like climate change. From entertaining displays to deep and impactful experiences, Venice has once again shown how art and virtual reality can challenge us and provoke thought. Ultimately, these displays create an experience for visitors that transcends the boundaries of the real world and allows them to travel to another realm.
