Charlap Hyman & Herrero's first solo exhibition, Ouvrez-Moi, was a site-specific installation of new work held by Alma Zevi Projects in Venice, Italy and organized by Clara Zevi. Located in a former Venetian mirror workshop steps away from the main gallery, in Salizzada Malipiero 3208, the installation comprises a bedroom fully furnished with works made by CHH in collaboration with local craftsmen in Murano. Referencing a scene in Jean Cocteau's 1932 film, The Blood of a Poet, in which a mirror turns to water upon the command ‘ouvrez-moi’, CHH’s mirrors become lamps, vases, vitrines, and aquariums.

The glass was etched with a pattern of interlocking ribbons and floating pearls, inspired by the ceiling of the arch in Il Palazzo della Società Buonarroti-Carpaccio-Giotto, designed by Piero Portaluppi. This pattern is realized again in white on a frosty blue fabric made in collaboration with Pilar Almon. Illustrations of snails adorn the textile, while living snails crawl amongst the plantlife.