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Biennale Arte 2022 LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA Eglc Budvytytc’s video tells the story of a group of
young people lost in the forests of Lithuania, while the
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characters in a new video by Zheng Bo live in total –
even sexual – communion with nature.

A similar sense of wonder can be found in the

The rediscovery of art’s myth-making potential can also snowy scenes embroidered by Sámi artist Britta
Marakatt-Labba, and ancient traditions also overlap
be seen in Ficre Ghebreyesus’ large-scale paintings with new forms of ecological activism in works by
and Portia Zvavahera’s hallucinatory visions, as well Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe and in Jaider Esbell’s dreamlike
as in the allegorical compositions by Frantz Zéphirin compositions.
and Thao Nguyen Phan that blend histories, dreams,
and religions. Drawing on indigenous knowledge and The Corderie starts off with another time capsule, in
subverting colonialist stereotypes, Argentine artist this case inspired by sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin
Gabriel Chaile presents a new series of monumental and her theory of fiction, which links the birth of
sculptures, made from unfired clay, which tower like civilisation not to the invention of weapons, but to
the idols of a fanciful Mesoamerican culture. tools used for providing sustenance and care: bags,
sacks, and vessels. In this section, ovoid carapaces
Many artists in the exhibition imagine complex by Surrealist artist Bridget Tichenor are juxtaposed
new relationships with the planet and with nature, with Maria Bartuszova’s delicate ceramics, Ruth
suggesting unprecedented ways to coexist with other Asawa’s hanging sculptures, and Tecla Tofano’s hybrid
species and with the environment. creatures. These works from the past live side-by-side

Elaine Cameron-Weir. 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, The
Milk of Dreams. Photo by: Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia

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