SPAL Venezia

For the opening weekend of the Venice Biennale 2024 a single SPAL sculpture was shipped from Hereford UK to Venice. 

With no additional load, the SPAL was transported as both a sculpture and a functional part of a pallet-based shipping system.

Having been tracked throughout its voyage, the markings and traces of transit were documented upon arrival at a depot in Venice. No customs duties or VAT could be claimed on what appeared to be an empty pallet.

The peripatetic sculpture was further transported around the city by boat and on foot to a number of destinations.