Terrarium was realized for The Milk of Dreams at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The installation creates a maze-like environment with large scale fabric paintings populated by Kiwanga’s sand-filled glass sculptures. The vast paintings intended to introduce variability and fluidity into the architecture of the Corderie and to bring the luminous color of an exterior landscape into the building’s interior. The Hour Glass sculptures, made handblown in collaboration with an artisan glass maker based in Berlin, are filled with silica sand. The installation imagines sand as a political material: a harmful product of the oil industry commonly used for fracking, the raw material for glass, and a reminder of an increasingly arid planet.