Saint Laurent held its show in a structure of mirrors in Venice An art installation called "Green Lens" that will be open to the public until July 30th

Yesterday the show of the SS22 collection by Saint Laurent was staged in Venice. The fashion show was intended to be a tribute to the city 1600 years after its foundation and, in fact, the video that accompanied the parade told it in various aspects, from the ancient to the modern. However, the real protagonist of the show was Green Lens, an installation commissioned by the brand to American artist Doug Aitken, composed of an octagonal structure entirely covered with mirrors inside a botanical garden. Here is how the artist described it: 

It will create a combination of reflections mixed with clouds, mist and wild green vegetation evoking a mysterious presence. Inside the sculpture there will be an enormous living kaleidoscope-like space that reflects the landscape, sky and the shifting surroundings. This installation turns the landscape into a living abstraction. 

Green Lens recalls some of Aitken's earlier works, especially The Garden, presented four years ago at the Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark, which included, albeit in a very different way, mirror structures and a tropical garden and the idea of a stage-work of art into which the viewer could enter. Among other things, as Artribune pointed out, Aitken had brought his works to Italy two more times – curiously always on an island: first always at the Venice Biennale in '99 and then again, in 2009, on the Tiber Island of Rome.