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Biennale Arte 2022 LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA twitching of machineries that resemble the digestive
59TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION
system of some animal.

A new video by posthumanist pioneer Lynn Hershman
Leeson celebrates the birth of artificial organisms, while
Korean artist Geumhyung Jeong plays with bodies that
At the very end of the Corderie, after moving through a
vast, diaphanous installation by Kapwani Kiwanga, the have become completely robotic and can be reassembled
at whim.
exhibition takes on colder, more artificial tones and the
human figure becomes increasingly evanescent, replaced Other works hover between obsolete technology and
by animals and hybrid or robotic creatures. mirage-like visions of the future. Zhenya Machneva’s
abandoned factories and decrepit industrial mechanisms
Marguerite Humeau’s biomorphic sculptures resemble seem brought back to life in the installations by Monira Al
cryogenic beings, juxtaposed with Teresa Solar’s Qadiri and Dora Budor, which whir and spin like bachelor
monumental exoskeletons. Raphaela Vogel describes a machines. Capping off this series of devices gone
world where animals have won out over humans, while haywire, a large installation by Barbara Kruger conceived
Jes Fan’s sculptures use organic materials like melanin specifically for the Corderie combines slogans, poetry,
and breast milk to create a new kind of bacterial culture. and word-objects in a crescendo of hypercommunication.
In contrast, Robert Grosvenor’s silent sculptures reveal
Apocalyptic scenarios of cells run wild and nuclear a world that seems devoid of all human presence.
nightmares also turn up in drawings by Tatsuo Ikeda And beyond this motionless universe grows Precious
and in Mire Lee’s installations, agitated by the Okoyomon’s vast entropic garden, swarming with new life.

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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