Pilar Zeta & Stéphane Ruffier-Meray

San Clemente Palace, Venice · 8 May 2026

There is a moment, standing before Mirror Gate II, when the work ceases to be sculpture and becomes conversation. That is what Barbara Pigazzi photographed on the island of San Clemente: Argentine artist Pilar Zeta and curator Stéphane Ruffier-Meray beside the Egyptian stones that have travelled the world together — from the Pyramids of Giza to the courtyard of the Louvre, and on to the gardens of the lagoon.

Two visions, one threshold. What Pilar Zeta has carved into the eternity of Egyptian stone, Stéphane Ruffier-Meray has known how to carry all the way to the lagoon — where everything, sooner or later, finds its reflection.

Ph. Barbara Pigazzi · Animica Portraits
Commissioned by Stéphane Ruffier-Meray · Biennale Arte 2026