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
Great Britain - Entrance
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
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
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
Palazzo Palumbo Fossati - San Marco 2597
Radiance - They dream In Time
Commissioner - Naumo Juliana Akoryo - Curator - Shaheen Merali
Commissioner - Naumo Juliana Akoryo - Curator - Shaheen Merali
Exhibitors - Acaye Kerunen -
Collin Sekajugo
Special Mention - National Participation - Uganda
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
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 -
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 -
Ali Cherri
- 1976 - Beirut - Lives - Paris - France -
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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 -
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
Special Mention - International Exhibition - The
Milk of Dreams
Lynn Hershman Leeson
- 1941, Cleveland - Lives - San Francisco - USA -
- 1941, Cleveland - Lives - San Francisco - USA -
Motivation - Special Mention - International Exhibition - The
Milk of Dreams
Lynn Hershman LeesonFor 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.
