Cecilia Alemani is not only the first Italian woman to curate the Venice Biennale, but is also its first curator to ensure that an overwhelming majority of the 213 artists exhibiting are women or gender non-conforming.\nNow is a time of new beginnings, as the world tentatively emerges from the...
but is also its first curator to ensure that an overwhelming majority of the 213 artists exhibiting are women or gender non-conforming.
Now is a time of new beginnings, as the world tentatively emerges from the pandemic. Alemani describes the artist demographic of the main exhibition, ‘The Milk of Dreams’ as ‘a choice that reflects an international art scene full of creative ferment and a deliberate rethinking of man’s centrality in the history of art and contemporary culture’.
Alemani has placed a strong emphasis on surrealism, but as she declares, ‘I don’t need to include Salvador Dalí’, because she was overwhelmed by the brilliance of the contemporary women artists whom she met over hundreds of Zoom studio visits during the pandemic, ranging from by the emerging Hungarian artist Zsófia Keresztes to the groundbreaking Samí artists Máret Ánne Sara and Pauliina Feodoroff at the Nordic Pavilion.
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