Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition. Titled “Foreigners Everywhere,” the exhibition opening Saturday was curated for the first time by a Latin American: Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa.
A visitor walks next to the ‘Las Meninas a San Marco’ sculptures part of the installation by the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés, at the San Marco’s Square during the 60th Biennale of Arts exhibition in Venice, Italy , Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition opens Saturday for its six-month run through Nov. 26. The main show titled ‘Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere’ is curated for the first time by a Latin American, Brazilian Adrian Pedrosa.
“Foreigners everywhere, the expression has many meanings,’’ Pedrosa said. “One could say that wherever you go, wherever you are, you are always surrounded by foreigners. … And then in a more personal, perhaps psychoanalytic subjective dimension, wherever you go, you are also a foreigner, deep down inside.”
The Nigerian Pavilion, in a long-disused building with raw brick walls that exude potential, houses an exhibition that spans mediums — including figurative art, installation, sculpture, sound art, film art and augmented reality — by artists living in the diaspora and in the homeland.
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