BANK is pleased to share that artist Yuyan Wang has been selected for the group exhibition Canicula, presented by Fondazione In Between Art Film, opening May 6, 2026, at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale. Wang’s newly commissioned video work Boring Billion (2026) will have its world premiere in the exhibition.
Curated by the foundation’s artistic director Alessandro Rabottini and curator Leonardo Bigazzi, Canicula is the final chapter of the “Trilogy of Uncertainties.” Spanning three editions of the Venice Biennale, the trilogy explores the place of moving image in contemporary art. From Penumbra (2022) to Nebula (2024) and now Canicula (2026), each chapter takes its cue from atmospheric and optical conditions of uncertainty, building a narrative arc of shifting perception.
The exhibition brings together eight moving image artists, each commissioned and supported by the foundation, which was founded by Beatrice Bulgari to promote moving image culture and support international artists in cross-disciplinary research.
Yuyan Wang’s Boring Billion (2026) is a 14'50" single-channel video assembled entirely from found online footage. The camera lingers in confined spaces where heavy machinery flickers in and out of data streams. Industrial gears lock and slide with a viscous, almost erotic rhythm. At the end of a tunnel, humanoid robots appear, their movements suspended between learning and instinct, drifting toward an uncertain elsewhere.
The soundtrack is a continuous low drone, punctuated by the opening line of All This Love. The title borrows from geology, referring to the long stagnant period before complex life emerged. With ironic detachment, the work depicts a world of endless emergence, where machines grow increasingly life‑like and humans adapt to mechanical logic, as algorithm‑driven visual culture spirals toward overload and decay. The work is co‑produced by The Vega Foundation.
Yuyan Wang (b. 1989, China) has exhibited at Crac Alsace, Gwangju Biennale 2025, Berlin Biennale 2022, Tate, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, UCCA, Douglas Hyde Gallery, IFFR, Doc Fortnight, and CPH:DOX.
