Exhibitions

Saint Stomak ends his ritual pilgrimage through Italy in Venice

End of the STMK TRIP project with an aquatic procession through the Venetian lagoon that claims slowness, Mediterranean memory and a new way of inhabiting the territory.

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After the first stages in Naples, in October 2025, and in Rome, in March 2026 , Sant Stomak put an end to his performative itinerary with an intervention in Venice that turned the lagoon into the scene of a collective ritual. The latest action of the STMK TRIP claims slowness as an act of resistance against the dominant models of mass tourism and proposes an artistic experience that connects heritage, landscape and community.

The celebration began with a crossing of the lagoon aboard a batéla, the traditional Venetian rowing boat. The procession will consist of six boats provided by the organization, to which will be added all those who wish to participate with their own boats. The aquatic procession will head to the island of Sant'Andrea, a place steeped in history located in the heart of the lagoon.

Once on the island, the proposal continues with a walking procession between the military chapel and the fort, accompanied by a soundscape created in collaboration with COSMOGRAM, which transforms the route into an immersive experience between art, spirituality and territory.

The symbolic core of the celebration will take place inside the chapel, where the traditional ritual of offerings dedicated to nutrition, digestion and daily habits related to food will be recovered. Participants are invited to contribute an object from their kitchen, a food, a recipe or a message as a shared gesture within this contemporary liturgy.

The day culminated with a collective toast organized jointly with Tocia!, a moment of meeting that will pay tribute to Sant Stomak and the sea that surrounds Venice, reinforcing the community character of the intervention.

The choice of the island of Sant'Andrea is not accidental. This former military enclave maintains a deep link with the historic Festa della Sensa, the ceremony of the Marriage of the Sea that symbolized the union between the Republic of Venice and the Adriatic. Recovering this space also means reconnecting with a shared memory that today acquires new meanings.

Far from conventional tourist circuits, this last stage of the STMK TRIP focuses on the Venetian lagoon and its local resources, reclaiming the Mediterranean as a space of coexistence, cultural exchange, memory and collective support.

The action is organized in collaboration with MICROCLIMA, the driving force behind the project to recover the island of Sant'Andrea, an international initiative that aims to convert this historic space into a center dedicated to research, sustainability and contemporary cultural production.

With the sunset as a backdrop, the Sant Stomak journey concludes by turning twilight into the final gesture of a project that has traveled across Italy exploring the relationships between ritual, food, territory and community from a contemporary artistic practice perspective.