Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film as part of the exhibition Canicula at Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice, 5 May – 22 November 2026. Co-produced by Onassis Culture, Heretic with further support by Mondriaan Fonds.

“Working across film, installation, sculpture, drawing and text, Janis Rafa creates immersive environments and experiences that examine the fraught relationship between the human and non-human body as much as between individuals and power or cultural structures. Her work engages with conditions of desire, love, abuse, resistance and vulnerability, intersecting with environmental and feminist politics and poetics. Themes of intimacy and violence, pleasure and control, care and intrusion coexist within landscapes at the margins of the urban, the mundane and progress. Stray and domesticated dogs, sport horses, hunted prey and industrially exploited bodies appear in her work as living presences and symbolic figures in familial environments that form a wordless reflection on power, trauma and perception in late-capitalist society.”

“The video installation Baby I’m Yours, Forever (2026) marks the beginning of the exhibition in the church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti. Conceived as an allegory of the idea of sacrifice, the work is set in a meat refrigeration facility – a symbolic architecture for the industry that processes and distributes meat for human consumption. The work poetically expands this reflection and looks at the wider tension between life and death, survival and extinction, as well as at the ‘sacrificial’ violence that one life form demands starting from the killing of another.”

Responsible for the flaming truck (full CG pyro).