Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition.
A visitor walks next to the 'Las Meninas a San Marco' sculptures part of the installation by the Spanish artist Manolo Valds, 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.
"Refugee, the foreigner, the queer, the outsider and the Indigenous, these are the four subjects of interest in the exhibition,'' he said.Ukraine is making its second Biennale art appearance as a country under invasion; soft diplomacy aimed at keeping the world focused on the war.
“These different relationships to the country allow for a very unique and different perspectives of Nigeria,’’ said curator Aindrea Emelife. “I think that it’s quite interesting to consider how leaving a space creates a nostalgia for what hasn’t been and allows an artist to imagine an alternative continuation to that. The exhibition is about nostalgia, but it’s also about criticality.
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