30 Years. The Wild Horses of Sable Island

The exhibition 30 Years. The Wild Horses of Sable Island reveals survival and fragility in a changing world. In Venice, it presents 36 large-format photographs, both black and white and color, dedicated to the wild horses of Sable Island, a remote strip of land in the North Atlantic. In an ideal dialogue with the fragility of the Lagoon, Roberto Dutesco’s images portray a precarious ecosystem where beauty arises from resilience and adaptability. Hosted at Le Stanze della Fotografia on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, the exhibition is part of the symbolic context of the 2026 Venice Biennale, offering an immersive narrative in three acts that guides visitors through origin, adaptation, and future. The horses, photographed without human intervention, become a metaphor for silent dignity and fragile balance, threatened by climate change and the erosion of natural habitats. The images and films invite a slow and engaged gaze: not mere naturalistic documentation, but an emotional experience that connects the vulnerability of the island with that of Venice itself—a city suspended between water, memory, and resilience.