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DENMARK
Heirloom
LARISSA SANSOUR/SØREN LIND. IN Commissioner: The Danish Arts Foundation: Lisette Vind Ebbesen (Chair), Peter
VITRO, 2019 © LARISSA SANSOUR. Land, Jane Jin Kaisen, Charlotte Fogh and Søren Assenholt.
PHOTOGRAPHER: SØREN LIND Curator: Nat Muller.
Exhibitor: Larissa Sansour.
Venue: Giardini
The interplay between fiction and reality, the ever-evolving
merger of myth and history, is a recurring theme in Sansour’s
art. As curator Nat Muller explains: “Science fiction becomes
a vehicle in which imaginaries and future scenarios can be
challenged and tested, and in which individual narratives and
personal experiences intertwine with collective ones; it becomes
a place and time in which remembrance and forgetfulness
compete, and where the past, the present, and even the future,
might be dispossessed. Nevertheless it is also is a realm of
possibility, of alternative world-making, if not radical alterity.”
The film ‘In Vitro’ is directed with Søren Lind and features the
internationally-renowned Palestinian actors Hiam Abbass and
Maisa Abd Elhadi. It was filmed in Bethlehem, London and
Oxfordshire. (excerpt)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Naturaleza y biodiversidad en la República Dominicana
LAS TERRENAS. ABSTRACCIÓN VI, 2018, Commissioner: Eduardo Selman, Minister of Culture.
PHOTO CREDIT: THE ARTIST, COURTESY Curators: Marianne de Tolentino, Simone Pieralice, Giovanni Verza.
OF THE PAVILION OF DOMINICAN Exhibitors: Dario Oleaga, Ezequiel Taveras, Hulda Guzmán, Julio Valdez, Miguel Ramirez,
REPUBLIC.
PARTICIPANT: JULIO VALDEZ Rita Bertrecchi, Nicola Pica, Marraffa & Casciotti.
Venue: Palazzo Albrizzi Capello, Cannaregio 4118 – Sala della Pace
Observe how the Dominican artists integrate in their works,
with extreme ease, biological, anthropological, plant and
zoomorphic elements. Conscious and proud of their national
and regional identity, the artists imitate, represent, reinvent
nature, in atmospheres that are sometimes unusual, suspended
between reality and imagination. In the works we observe a
desire to communicate with the universe and life, claiming the
key role of nature and biodiversity, as established by the theme
chosen for the Biennale Arte 2019. With a rich and multi-colored
palette – ranging from sober shades to sparkling colors - Hulda
Guzmán recreates magical dimensions, in which a sense of
coherence and monumentality reigns in an ecological territory
still untouched. Her painting reproduces a deeply emotional and
mysterious atmosphere. The pyramid, the water of the sea and
the rivers, the topography of valleys and wild landscapes, the sky
in which the sun and the moon shine, the exuberant vegetation
of the tropical foliage, the flight of birds are all elements that
follow each other and flow into the artist’s creations, generating
perfect chromatic agreements, until they reach an inebriating
intensity that incorporates lyrical abstractions, perceived almost
as threatening by this idyllic order. (excerpt)

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