For their first solo fair presentation, Rosario Aninat & Simon Shim-Sutcliffe present a sculptural installation that interrogates water’s multifaceted roles: as a source of life, a connector of disparate places, a tool of segregation, and a site of resistance.

From engineered channels to mechanisms of collection—whether of natural resources like water or cultural artifacts like art—"River Running Saga" explores the shifting relationships between control, accumulation, and flow.

Rosario Aninat (b. 1993) & Simon Shim-Sutcliffe (b. 1997) have developed a collaborative practice that builds upon their shared experience of how monumental infrastructure shapes our contemporary world. They met in 2019 while studying at the Städelschule. Their sculptures and site-specific installations examine the ruins of modernity through the sociomaterial remnants of oil fields and pipelines, mega highways, canals, sewers, and an ever-growing pile of rubble. In 2025, they were awarded the Hessische Kulturstiftung Reise Stipendium, supporting a three-month trip to document China’s North-South Water Transfer Project.