Tuesday, April 26, 2022

La Biennale di Venezia - Awards - 59th International Art Exhibition - Pavilions - Artists - Works

 

La Biennale di Venezia - 59th International Art Exhibition
 Awards 
Pavilions - Artists - Works
 
The Awards Ceremony of the 59th International Art Exhibition - curated by Cecilia Alemani entitled - The Milk of Dreams - chaired by Roberto Ciccuto - until November 27 - the Jury comprising of Adrienne Edwards - USA - President of the Jury - Lorenzo Giusti - Italy - Julieta Gonzalez - Mexico - Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Cameroon - Susanne Pfeffer - Germany decided to present the following awards: 

Golden Lion - Best National Pavilion
Great Britain
- Entrance

https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2022/


 
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Golden Lion - Best National Participation - Great Britain - Giardini
Sonia Boyce - Feeling Her Way 
Commissioner - Emma Dexter - British Council - Curator - Emma Ridgway
Exhibitor - Sonia Boyce
 
Sonia Boyce depicts intimate social encounters that explore interpersonal dynamics. Working across drawing, photography, video, and installation, she composes works from images and voices captured during the participatory events she initiates. 
Sonia Boyce 
 
 
Motivation - Golden Lion for Best National Participation 
Great Britain
 
Sonia Boyce proposes, consequently, another reading of histories through the sonic. In working collaboratively with other black women, she unpacks a plenitude of silenced stories. Boyce proposes a very contemporary language in relation to fragmented forms that the viewer in experiencing the pavilion can piece together. Important questions of rehearsal as opposed to the perfect attuned, as well as relations between voices in a form of choir, in a distance, and at varying points in the show are posed. 
 
 
Golden Lion - Best National Participation 
Great Britain
 
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Curator - Emma Ridgway
 

Golden Lion - Best National Participation 
Great Britain
 
 
Special Mention -  National Participation - France - Giardini
Les reves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles
Commissioner: Institut Francais - Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ministry of Culture - Curators - Yasmina Reggad - Sam Bardaouil - Till Fellrath   
Exhibitor - Zineb Sedira - above
 
 
Motivation - Special mentions - National Participations 
France
 
In recognition of and gratitude for the long standing exchange of ideas and solidarity as the idea of of building communities in the diaspora. For looking at complex history of cinema beyond the west and the multiple histories of resistance in her work. 
 

Motivation - Special mentions - National Participations 
France

Zineb Sedira’s film installation investigates the drive to make militant films in the 1960s and ’70s, a testament to the cultural partnerships forged in the past between the two sides of the Mediterranean. Zineb Sedira has transformed the French Pavilion into a film studio, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, between personal and collective memory. 
 


Special Mention -  National Participation - France
 Zineb Sedira - Les reves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles
 
photograph - AVZ - courtesy - La Biennale di Venezia
 
Special Mention -  National Participation - Uganda  
Palazzo Palumbo Fossati - San Marco 2597
Radiance - They dream In Time
Commissioner - Naumo Juliana Akoryo - Curator - Shaheen Merali
 Exhibitors - Acaye Kerunen - Collin Sekajugo
 
photograph - AVZ - Andrea Avezzu - courtesy - La Biennale di Venezia
 
Special Mention -  National Participation - Uganda 
 
photograph - AVZ - Andrea Avezzu - courtesy - La Biennale di Venezia
 
Motivation - Special mentions - National Participations 
 
In acknowledgement of their vision, ambition and commitment to art and working in their country. Acaye Kerunen in her choice of sculptural materials like bark-clothed rafia illustrates sustainability as a practice and not just a policy or concept. 
 
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Special Mention -  National Participation - Uganda 
Curator - Shaheen Merali   

photograph - AVZ - Andrea Avezzu - courtesy - La Biennale di Venezia
 
 Special Mention -  National Participation - Uganda 
 
Radiance – they dream in time - curated by Shaheen Merali, is a result of multiple processes, including online conversations, field trips to the centres of excellence developing artistic practices and resources through curatorial and organisational support.  
 
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President - La Biennale di Venezia - Robert Ciccuto and Cecilia Alemani 
curator - 59 International Art Exhibition - The Milk of Dreams


 

Golden Lion - Best Participant - International Exhibition - The Milk of Dreams
Simone Leigh

- 1967 - Chicago - Lives - New York City - USA - 
 
Motivation
For the rigorously researched, virtuosically realized, and powerfully persuasive monumental sculptural opening to the Arsenale, which alongside Belkis Ayoon, provided a compelling entree to the ideas, sensibilities and approaches constellated and animated throughout The Milk of Dreams
 

 
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Silver Lion - Promising Young Participant - International Exhibition 
 The Milk of Dreams
Ali Cherri

- 1976 - Beirut -  Lives - Paris - France - 
 
photograph -  RM-Arsenale - courtesy - La Biennale di Venezia
 
Motivation - Silver Lion -Young Artist - International Exhibition 
 The Milk of Dreams 
Ali Cherri
 For an interdisciplinary and multilayered presentation that takes a meditation on earth, fire and water from a constructive perspective to a mythical dimension, reflecting The Milk of Dream’s own opening up to other narratives that depart from the logic of progress and reason. 
 
 
Special Mention - International Exhibition  - The Milk of Dreams 
Shuvinai Ashoona
- 1961 - Kinngait - Lives - Kinngait - Nunavut -
 Motivation 
 
Shuvinai Ashoona  reveals in her drawings and paintings a profundity of indigenous Inuk cosmogonies. An existence in which species are interdependent on each other, and which is not mediated by the coloniality of power of the human species. Acknowledging the violences of the colonial enterprise, Ashoona, in her work proposes possibilities of escaping the cul-de-sac by listening in, listening back and listening forward to indigenous knowledge. 
 
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Italian Minister for Cultural Heritage -  Dario Franceschini and Roberto Cicutto - President - La Biennale di Venezia
 
 photograph -  RM-Arsenale - courtesy - La Biennale di Venezia  
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Special Mention - International Exhibition  - The Milk of Dreams 
Lynn Hershman Leeson
- 1941, Cleveland - Lives - San Francisco - USA - 
 
photograph -  RM-Arsenale - courtesy - La Biennale di Venezia  
 
Motivation - Special Mention - International Exhibition  - The Milk of Dreams 
Lynn Hershman Leeson
 
For indexing the cybernetic concerns that run through the exhibitions in an illuminating and powerful way that also includes visionary moments of her early practice that foresaw the influence of technology in our everyday lives.
 
 
 

 
 
 


 
 


 

 

 
 

 
 



 
 


 
 


 
 

 

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