For the Venice Glass Week 2021, Irene curates her clouded universe with Nadja Romain in a site-specific installation in the gardens of Il Palazzo Experimental. The title of the exhibition "Yūgen” is a concept taken from Japanese aesthetics whose meaning changes depending upon its context. In philosophical texts, it can be defined roughly as an awareness of the universe that inspires an emotional response too profound to articulate, a notion that resonated deeply with Irene's own experience and perception of reality. The shifting landscape of the sky is replicated in a series of illuminated clouds. A moving contradiction, the artworks reform those shapes that so often obscure the light of the sun and moon and instead present them as independent forms, infusing them with their own light.

The exhibition plays a pivotal role in expanding the artist's practice: among the artworks on display, we find larger scales and the first variants in marble. Literally translated as "cloudy impenetrability,” the title of the exhibition hints at a number of connotations, extrapolating a sense of mystery and unknowability. Irene views this ambiguity, this "cloudiness," as a fundamental part of life's beauty and as an essential component of her art.