Damiano Tata's Strange Fruits at CIRCUIT, Mestre: Ceramics, Sound, and the Politics of Vegetal Matter

Damiano Tata's solo exhibition Strange Fruits opens at CIRCUIT in Mestre from 2 October to 20 December 2026, curated by Laura Cocciolillo. The show inaugurates the venue's new exhibition season and weaves together ceramics, sculpture, sound, biological processes, and digital technologies. Born in Rome in 1997, Tata works as a visual artist and composer, treating the vegetal body as a carrier of information. In his vision, a fruit functions as an archive, preserving the history of the territories it traverses, the economies that cultivate it, and the bodies that labor to harvest it. It can also continue to emit sounds throughout its own transformation. This framework shifts attention away from an object's recognizable surface toward the conditions that determine its circulation. Behind a familiar form, a geography of relations among bodies, myths, migrations, exchanges, and forms of exploitation emerges. The exhibition is set in Mestre, part of the Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy, and runs for nearly three months. By foregrounding the entanglement of plant matter and power relations, Strange Fruits positions Tata's interdisciplinary practice within contemporary debates on materiality, sound, and the politics of global supply chains.