Mind the Gap

From Evidence
to Imagination

26 February
—24 May
2026

Casa
Cavazzini
Udine

Mind the Gap

From Evidence
to Imagination

Sonia Levy

Hafrún, 2019
HD video installation with two channels, color, sound, 14 min.

Hafrún is the name of the most ancient ocean quahog ever known. When discovered and dredged, it was 507 years old. Like the rings of a tree trunk, quahog shells serve as archives preserving centuries of climate changes. The video, named after the mollusk, portrays the process of data collection from the shells of Atlantic clams. Like scientists in the laboratory, we ask ourselves: what can we learn about climate change from more-than-human forms of life?

Sonia Levy is an artist and filmmaker with a Berber-Polish background. Her work, marked by site-specific and interdisciplinary inquiries, delves into the implications of Western expansionist and extractive logics, exploring how these forces manifest in the transformation and governance of hydrosocial worlds. Her practice aims to probe the thresholds that have shaped and influenced the conditions necessary for life to flourish. She was the 2023-24 European Marine Board artist-in-residence, contributing to the UN Ocean Decade, and the 2022 S+T+ARTS4Water resident with TBA21–Academy in Venice. Levy’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at Tate Modern, Museo Thyssen, ICA London and ZKM Karlsruhe. She is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, School of Architecture and, currently, a guest researcher at THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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