“Not far from the Giardini and Arsenale, at the local gallery Alma Zevi, the curator Clara Zevi tapped the American architecture and design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero to create an installation of furniture that highlights the dexterity of Venice’s craftsmen. The resulting installation, Ouvrez-Moi, takes its inspiration from a scene in Jean Cocteau’s 1930s fantasy The Blood of a Poet, in which a man enters a mirror as if it were a pool.”