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AZERBAIJAN
Virtual Reality
BUBBLE REFLECTION, Commissioner: Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria.
2019, COMPUTER Curator: Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.
RENDERING, COURTESY
OF THE ARTIST, Exhibitor: Renate Bertlmann.
ZARNISHAN YUSIFOVA Venue: Giardini

Each day, we are susceptible to a mind-boggling tsunami of
news. Individuals check their telephones around 150 times each
day around the world, and over 2 billion individuals use social
networks. There is a significant change in the manner in which
we receive data and news today. We are living in a “fake news
bubble”, stories are more often shared via web-based networking
media than official news stories, and a significant part of the
contention around false news is about something other than
whether its content is valid or not. We all need to escape the
confines of confirmation bias and shine a light on our unconscious
leanings. We should embrace the views of others and acknowledge
the other side in our communications. We should stimulate and
participate in debate and remember that social media platforms
only give us more of the same. It is up to us as individuals to
change that pattern. In a time of international instability, where
the world is facing more significant change than ever before, this
exhibition could not be more affecting. (excerpt)

BANGL ADESH
Thirst
Commissioner: Liaquat Ali Lucky. Curators: Mokhlesur Rahman,Viviana Vannucci.
Exhibitors: Bishwajit Goswami, Dilara Begum Jolly, Heidi Fosli, Gazi Nafis Ahmed, Franco Marrocco, Domenico Pellegrino,
Preema Nazia Andaleeb, Ra Kajol, Uttam Kumar karmaker.
Venue: Palazzo Zenobio – Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael Dorsoduro 2596

The exhibition, appropriately titled THIRST, expects to focus on
one of the problems that most affects Bangladesh: the crisis of
fresh water. Although this country is rich in water resources,
it has to fight seasonal problem of drought; the withdrawal of
water in the upstream of many rivers, on which India has erected
dams; groundwater pollution and scarcity of drinking water in
many areas. Although there are hundreds of rivers crisscrossing
Bangladesh, with fifty four rivers sharing common flows with
India, it continues to experience water supply problems because
of drying up of water flow,salinity and blockages created by
dams and sluice gates. Other problems of ecological, agricultural,
industrial, urban and political nature that are reflections of
the socioeconomic and industrial development of the country
also add to the seriousness of the water crisis. In recent
years the Government of Bangladesh has launched a series of
humanitarian interventions and urban plans aimed at solving
the problem in the shortest time possible, especially with the
construction of deeper wells to access groundwater. (excerpt)

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