Cymru yn Fenis / Wales in Venice presents Sownd: Manon Awst and Dylan Huw

Manon Awst and Dylan Huw’s Sownd is an immersive installation combining organic materials, found objects and textual, sonic and architectural elements. Its title – a Cymraeg/ Welsh word meaning both “stuck” and “foundationally sound” – frames a work exploring the interplay between wetland ecologies and minoritised languages.

Drawing on research in Welsh peatlands, the artists evoke these transitional landscapes as sites that simultaneously conceal and reveal deep layers of cultural and geological history. Guided by a poetic associative logic, the work gathers and assembles fragments into a living exhibition, incorporating samples from a parallel site-responsive programme in Wales during the Biennale Arte 2026’s run.