Amar Kanwar. Co-travellers

Ko Than Htay, a bookseller in Myanmar, tore the first page out of every book he sold, because that page carried the military regime's declarations. Amar Kanwar built The Torn First Pages around that gesture: metal frames running through three rooms on Palazzo Grassi's second floor, holding video, printed material and activists' footage of demonstrations.

Then you walk into a completely dark central room for The Peacock's Graveyard, made nearly twenty years later, in 2023. On seven almost invisible screens, images and Kanwar's own texts surface and dissolve over 28 minutes, telling five short fables about death and impermanence to a raga by the pianist Utsav Lal.

ACC Art called it "one of the most intellectually and emotionally restrained exhibitions" in Venice, built on "stillness, slowness and moral attention". Give the dark room its full 28 minutes. The €20 ticket also covers Michael Armitage's paintings in the same palazzo and Punta della Dogana; under-20s go free. Closed Tuesdays, last entry 17:00.