Page 25 - La Biennale di Venezia 2022 issue of World of Art Contemporary Art Magazine

Jane Graverol, L’École de la Vanité, 1967.
Photo Renaud Schrobiltgen. Collection Anne
Boschmans. Courtesy Schirn Kunsthalle
Frankfurt. © SIAE. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia This exhibition is grounded in many conversations with artists held in the last few
years. The questions that kept emerging from these dialogues seem to capture this
moment in history when the very survival of the species is threatened, but also to sum
up many other inquiries that pervade the sciences, arts, and myths of our time. How is
the definition of the human changing?

Elle Pérez, Petal, 2020-2021. Courtesy the Artist; What constitutes life, and what differentiates plant and animal, human and non-
47 Canal. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia human? What are our responsibilities towards the planet, other people, and other life
forms? And what would life look like without us?

These are some of the guiding questions for this edition of the Biennale Arte, which
focuses on three thematic areas in particular: the representation of bodies and
their metamorphoses; the relationship between individuals and technologies; the
connection between bodies and the Earth.”

“As visitors move through the exhibition in the Central Pavilion and the Corderie,
they encounter five smaller, historical sections: miniature constellations of artworks,
found objects, and documents, clustered together to explore certain key themes.
Conceived like time capsules, these shows within the show provide additional tools
of investigation and introspection, weaving a web of references and echoes that link
artworks of the past – including major museum loans and unconventional selections –
to the pieces by contemporary artists in the surrounding space.

This wide-ranging, transhistorical approach traces kinships and affinities between
artistic methods and practices, even across generations, to create new layers of
meaning and bridge present and past. What emerges is a historical narrative that is not
built around systems of direct inheritance or conflict, but around forms of symbiosis,
solidarity, and sisterhood.”

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