Argentianian Pavilion, Argentina at Venice Biennale of Art - Arsenale, Castello - City of Venice
(Photo: © Matteo Losurdo)
Exhibition in progress from April 20th to November 26th 2024
The 60th Biennale Arte will open to the public on April 20. But on the 17th, 18th and 19th there will be the various events and collateral events that always enliven
suddenly Venetian artistic life. The awards ceremony will take place the day of opening to the public.
The title of the 60th edition of the Art Biennale is Foreigners Everywhere - Foreigners Everywhere.
The exhibition will be divided into between the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and the Arsenale, including 213 artists from 88 nations. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 works and objects on display, 80 new productions.
Go to the page of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
Curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
The 2024 edition is curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
– Adriano Pedrosa (born 1965) is a Brazilian curator. He is the artistic director of the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP) and the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Argentianian Pavilion, Argentina at 60th Biennale Arte of Venice
The title of the exhibition at the Australian Pavilion is Ojalá se derrumben las puertas.
Artists: Luciana Lamothe.
Curators: Sofía Dourron.
Commissioner:
Seat: Argentinian Pavilion, Arsenale - Venice
Press Release of Argentinian Pavilion
Ojalá se derrumben las puertas [Hope the Doors Collapse], the
work by Luciana Lamothe curated by Sofía Dourron selected to
represent Argentina at the 60th International Art Exhibition,
La Biennale di Venezia, enunciates the need to overcome the
hegemonic ways of inhabiting the planet that have produced
a present plagued by climate, migratory, economic, social and
territorial crises. The four structures that make up the work,
conceived around the architecture of the Argentine pavilion, are
built from iron scaffolding, curved phenolic ribbons and a series
of sculptures made from scraps of discarded, burned and slashed
wood, branches, trunks, fragments of pipes and metal clamps.
The elements intertwine, generating enveloping and walkable
spaces that subvert the archetypes of Western architecture to
reformulate the notion of “inhabiting.” The work does not respond
to traditional construction principles, but draws on them to cause
material transformations in our manufactured environments and
thus also cause changes in the ways in which we relate to the
world around us.
With an approach that the artist defines as “monomaterial”,
focused on the different states of wood and its interactions with
bodies, the work posits matter as the principle of the real and
positions us in an environment whose material forces manifest
their own agency and erode the anthropocentric ontology of
modernity. Thus, Ojalá se derrumben las puertas [Hope the
Doors Collapse] proposes to establish an emotional and sensual
bond with the materials to integrate ourselves into an ecology
that overflows the borders that separate culture and nature,
human and non-human. The spaces proposed by Lamothe
intertwine, combine and ally materials to generate new spatial,
formal and aesthetic possibilities that propose other ways of
living: queer, supportive and symbiotic. In tune with the condition
of “foreignness” formulated by the curator of the biennial,
Adriano Pedrosa, which expresses the differences and disparities
based on the identity, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, wealth
and freedom of the people who circulate around the world,
Lamothe proposes material environments in which difference is
not a weakness, but the greatest of strengths.
Useful information for the visit
Hours:
Gardens from 10.00 to 19.00. Arsenale from 10.00 to 19.00 (from 10.00 to 20.00 on Friday and Saturday until September 30th). Closed on Mondays (except April 22, June 17, July 22, September 2, September 30, October 31, November 18).
Tickets: please visit the official website.
Phone: +39.041.5218711; fax +39.041.2728329
E-mail: aav@labiennale.org
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