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Venice Biennale 2022, here are the first images of the international exhibition

by Redazione , published on 21/04/2022
Categories: Contemporary art / Disclaimer

The 59th edition of the Venice Biennale will open on Saturday, April 23. We previewed the international exhibition, here are the first images.

The 59th edition of the Venice Biennale kicks off on Saturday, April 23. The international exhibition, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, starts with the theme of the posthuman to address some of the issues of the present, at a time in history when the very survival of humanity is threatened. How is the definition of human changing? What are the differences that separate the plant, the animal, the human and the nonhuman? What are our responsibilities to our fellow human beings, to other life forms, and to the planet we inhabit? And what would life be like without us? These are some of the questions the exhibition asks.

" The Milk of Dreams Exhibition,“ explains Cecilia Alemani, ”takes its title from a storybook by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) in which the surrealist artist describes a magical world in which life is constantly reinvented through the prism of the imagination and in which one is allowed to change, transform, become other than oneself. The exhibition The Milk of Dreams chooses Carrington’s fantastical creatures, along with many other figures of transformation, as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human. These are some of the questions that guide this edition of the Art Biennale, whose research focuses particularly around three thematic areas: the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses; the relationship between individuals and technologies; and the links that weave between bodies and the Earth."

On display are 213 female artists, contemporaries and historians (the latter exhibited mainly in small shows called “thematic capsules” that, Alemani further explains, “enrich the Biennale with a trans-historical and transversal approach that traces similarities and legacies between similar methodologies and artistic practices, even generations apart, creating new layers of meaning and short circuits between present and past: a historiography that proceeds not by filiations and conflicts but by symbiotic relationships, sympathies and sisterhoods.”

We visited the exhibition during the press preview and offer some images below.

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Venice Biennale 2022, here are the first images of the international exhibition

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Venice Biennale 2022, here are the first images of the international exhibition

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