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BIENNALE VENEZIA

50TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION 2003

Dreams and Conflicts - The Dictatorship of the Viewer

Charles Ray USA
identities of her varied Greenhead characters are difficult to pin down and
Tobias Rehberger Germany
their behavior both ambivalent and contradictory. Pitso Chinzima and Veliswa
Nick Relph, Oliver Payne UK Gwintsa’s installation addresses the cumulative effects of relentless, social
Pedro Reyes Mexico violence as a global phenomenon that militates against the efforts of ordinary
Pia Roenike Denmark people to realize a full and meaningful existence. Rejecting the notion that
Fernando Romero Mexico social violence is a peculiarly South African experience, Chinzima and Gwintsa
suggest that violence is one of the more troubling effects of globalization
Martha Rosler USA
and its discontents.
Aïda Ruilova USA
Fifty years after the revolution that dispensed with colonial rule, Moataz Nasr’s
Walid Sadek Beirut mesmerizing video installation presents a powerful critique of the cynicism
Christoph Schlingensief Germany of politicians and the indifference of their electorate in post-revolutionary,
Dana Schutz USA postcolonial Egypt. Meanwhile the work of Sabah Naim’s film and installation
Paul Seawright Wales works visualize the widening gap between two often incommensurate worlds:
the international arena of the media and global politics and the everyday world
Shimabuku Japan
of ordinary Egyptians and their daily effort to survive. Everyday struggles have
Efrat Shvily Israel
taken the place of the nationalist struggles in this new postcolonial world
Andreas Siekmann, Alice Creischer
Germany /Argentina
Andreas Slominski Germany
Patti Smith USA
Robert Smithson USA
Doron Solomons Israel Liu Zheng
Night Club Hostesses
Yutaka Sone Japan
Black and white photograph
Monika Sonowska Poland Beijing, 1998
Nancy Spero, Leon Golub USA
Simon Starling Scotland
Michael Stevenson New Zealand
Mladen Stilinovic Croatia
Rudolf Stingel Italy
Superflex Denmark
Tadaso Takamine Japan
Javier Téllez Venezuela
Nahum Tevet Israel
Lincoln Tobier, Simon Leung USA
Jaan Toomik Esthonia
Rosemarie Trockel Germany
Tatian Trouvé France
Tsang Tsou-choi China
Nobuko Tsuchiya Japan
Patrick Tuttofuoco Italy
Uglycute Sweden
Markus Degerman, Andreas Nobel,
Jonas Nobel, Fredrik Stenberg
Piotr Uklanski Poland
Meyer Vaisman Venezuela
Agnes Varda Belgium
Anton Vidokle Russia
Luca Vitone Italy
Lawrence Weiner USA
Eyal Weizman Israel
Pae White USA
Steven Willats UK

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