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Beautiful Venice, we arrived and it is a picture book
We headed to visit Lubaina Himid, representing the UK at the Biennale with her exhibition “Thinking Historically in the Present: Remembering the Future”. We were honoured to spend time with Lubaina alongside Paul Ettlinger and Raimund Berthold
We had a lovely time, and the works were full of colour and magic. The work suggests an engagement with the present, while also reminding us that older lives and traditions endure and cannot be erased
Navigating the rain was like navigating the soup
The German Pavilion was particularly interesting, featuring work by Henrike Naumann and Sung Tieu
In the Canadian Pavilion, “Abbas Akhavan: Entre chien et loup” unfolded within a murky, atmospheric setting centred around an indoor black pond, essentially transforming the Pavilion itself into a greenhouse
The Nordic Pavilion, “How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?”, presents a collaborative exhibition. It was a pleasure to see Klara Kristalova’s work displayed so thoughtfully within the space
So happy to see Anna Mustonen curating the three artists in collaboration within the Nordic Pavilion. Here she stands in front of the sculptures by Benjamin Orlow
Proud of Tif Zab for hosting Maja Malou Lyse at The Times Square Space in 'Things to Come.' For this commission, Maja was given sperm from a sperm bank to use within her work. Made in collaboration with DIS, she explores these processes through a critical lens, working with porn starts to create a soft porn film
With her Cryos lab work, she stages a sci-fi-like environment, as if stepping into a spaceship. I experienced the installation of dried sperm more as a minimalist, abstract work, with fleeting echoes of Andreas Gursky’s Prada photographs
The Austrian Pavilion was full on….
Lovely to bump into our drowned art friends, Wendy Fisher, Hazel Collins and James Lindon
We say goodbye to Gardini and head to the Arsenale to visit Seyni Awa Camara, a potter from Basse Casamance in Senegal. Her practice and knowledge were passed down to her by her mother
There were an abundance of sculpture. I liked the work by Edouard Duval Carrié from Haiti. He witnessed the mass migration of Haitians after the 1991 military coup
The painting of Tammy Nguyen artworks were intriguing and with an expansive visual language which combines painting, printmaking and collage
My favourite works in the whole Biennale were by Sohrab Hura, who brings together sense and nonsense through collision and contrast. He draws on scenes from both lived experience and the internet
The evening highlight was a beautiful Chanel dinner, with Yana Peel at the helm. The event recognised 10 international, interdisciplinary artists for their revolutionary work, providing each with €100,000 in funding to support and accelerate new projects
