
DAU: THE QUANTUM EFFECT (Venice Exhibition Review)
Venice has always been a city of contradictions, a place where opulent façades conceal elaborate secrets. It feels fitting then that Ilya Khrzhanovsky brought his sprawling, controversial DAU project here under the banner of The Quantum Effect. Staged at the San Marco Art Center, the exhibition reframes the long-mythologized DAU experiment by presenting unseen “physics” reels—documented debates between real scientists dropped into meticulously recreated conditions of Lev Landau’s Soviet laboratory—while pairing them with restored screenings of three completed works: FOUR, DAU. NATASHA, and DAU. DEGENERATION.