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

with Magdalene Odundo’s anthropomorphic vases and relationship with the pharmaceutical world through a
Pinaree Sanpitak’s concave forms, while video artist meditative practice of meticulous daily drawings.
Saodat Ismailova surveys underground isolation cells The final section at the Corderie is introduced by the
that serve as places of refuge and meditation. fifth and last time capsule, revolving around the figure
Colombian artist Delcy Morelos, whose works are of the cyborg. This presentation brings together artists
inspired by Andean cosmologies and the cultures working over the course of the 20th century who
of the Amazon, presents a large-scale installation imagined new fusions of the human and the artificial,
featuring a maze built out of earth. Many other as harbingers of a posthuman, postgender future.
artists in the show combine political and social This capsule includes artworks, artefacts, and
approaches with an investigation of local traditions, documents from early 20th-century artists such as
as in Prabhakar Pachpute’s large-scale paintings of the Dadaist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Bauhaus
the environmental devastation caused by the mining photographers Marianne Brandt and Karla Grosch,
industry in India, or Ali Cherri’s video about the dams and Futurists Alexandra Exter, Giannina Censi, and
of the Nile. Igshaan Adams grounds his abstract textile Regina. Here, Anu P der’s delicate sculptures portray
compositions in themes ranging from apartheid to fragmented bodies that stand in contrast with Louise
gender conditions in South Africa, whereas Ibrahim Nevelson’s monoliths, Liliane Lijn’s totems, Rebecca
El-Salahi conveys his experience of illness and his Horn’s machines, and Kiki Kogelnik’s robots.

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