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in april 25th a boat sank in the mediterranean coast $700.00 migrants drowned this was on his coast to fish it has brought the wreck to the venice biennale night but canned of us will really be chastised for is it just tasteless well it certainly gets people talking and that is very much in the spirits of this being on i now in its 58th edition which aims to open up new perspectives on the world is that succeeding let's take a look. fog steam sacredness of a rolling down the facade of the central pavilion. the us official fog in venice the visitors at the entrance curate. ralph reed off promised powerful images and
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the show begins with one created by lara for a 2nd art that you can physically feel. it's rising from the building because it was a great. collecting all the faults of the visitors who are inside who are engaging just more. of course as human beings we're not just about things. in our heads we can live in the past or the future or whatever our bodies were always living in the rest of the exhibition is entitled may you live in interesting times what does that mean is that a chinese casts as is widely supposed to know that's a political myth and of this age of fake news and alternative facts this show urges us to take a closer look at the world around us and to take a stance. that was really good for. the liver
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by people coming. in a small cabinet as a diagram a created by dominicans are dispersed enjoy this hill it's amazingly realistic but where are the animals and other living beings. that it's people mars actually based on photographs of somebody driest places on earth through the desert to actually work that for you. so while it is looking like something serious science museum also making a make about what could be the future of earth with climate change. many die rama's used to offer an insight into the past stage scenes of everyday life this dire omma gives an insight into the future into death this dollarama. also to me is like the religious form of work for real. rudolph has done really works. easy to
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understand and yet have a lasting impact. jimmy durham who won this year's golden lion for lifetime achievement brought a slab of stone his path around the world he detailed. me india. how it's brought them to mom by our travels through the sewers and if you. do it becomes a. story about global economic relationship. that ends up in office buildings or you live. weighing in at half a ton it's dazzlingly beautiful but at the same time it's a symbol of exploitation. rather it isn't one for spectacle nor does he believe in political correctness he thinks that our should be allowed to be an image that burns itself into the mind so that it's not forgotten.
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robots wiping clean a surface soiled by a viscous liquid that looks like blood over and over again. there's still work in the world she would wish purely. for you. if you do it in. a relentless and desperate beast that might shatter the glass panels at any time programmed with 32 different motions sequences everything under control. with lots of them. yes the last week and every day. the workers by the chinese artists one young and paying you who think that the essence of us is the. it cannot be taken.
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very close. to. john ramsey's or. so i was. think it's possible to read this book any different love. artists. search for. free expression. we're going to society that's. structured to confer expression. this is. not dissimilar what's happening here. like a manager whose crime comes back to haunt them. a machine perhaps can be controlled a human being cannot. humans try to seek their own path in
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venice this path could lead perhaps to lithuanians pavillion to some outcry with a deeper meaning. i cried so much when i heard that the corals want to exist anymore the girl sings. the way it is the winner of this year's golden lion for the best national contribution to the venice biennale 0. 0. 000. sun and sea is a performative piece it was created by the artist trio. 5 a kid i need to and lena.
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it's actually you want to think that it's a nice entres between the songs there are underneath but there is a lot. of sides informal no they're really loves for one so please see you observe. a lot. going on in the service. standing there in the sun something to look at 1st glance they might look like they kitchener's at the beach but the people in swimwear sing about the impact of everyday travel on our climate or about the mass extinction of species the company text explains how casually crises unfold today with the ease of a pop song a brilliant piece of work with when you're a worthy winner. where to now
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the longest long is in front of the french pavilion. is it worth the wait. to. get smokey and funky here. is it a metaphysical pressure cooker or a mystical palace whatever it is it's alluring how far you've come a. really good deep janessa. system. full of visits his have to go around the back. and then you want to answer for their friend trends you know i wanted. us to find a new way to let you. know you know that you and this weekend trip there right. there right away and it is much more space. show for the back.
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here meow. weaver rat a. so if you do if you want to know they need to get into the back and you just climb up the better you know. it's a good point you keep coming. almost anything. here we started to get out on to the british so we stick with a little break then. busy busy busy busy all around us the detritus of civilization. busy creates miniature installations depicting the end of the world she's interested in the state of transition as well as that of destruction. it's a big didn't it didn't end big blue green when it's me it's quite close to reality
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and future of the clinton era 5th it is here. to help the well a bit. the work also brings to mind biblical imagery and now or after the flood released to dive to find land. who won the turner prize in 2013 traveled across france inviting artists and performers to come with her to venice to animate the french pavilion. bend we met a magician there kid starts getting the table seeing the birds flying out of paintings and we couldn't believe if there is i can. we carry on the tree and then
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joined a a. it is amazing thing if a film journey with real discoveries digital surrealism continuing into the analog world. a marching band that. means we met and i don't know where you go here is the father of the brides that we met you know you know that went with him. you know we're getting to. know paul fishes in the unconscious and discovers the state of the world magnificent but where should we go now after all this strangeness welcome we expect
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at the german trevelyan. hotel should suit up a month wanted to do something completely different with her head hidden the artist representing germany can't talk right now and has her own spokeswoman. of marking. the artist's real name is not taj and saw that her head she was born in iran and is now a professor in britain and this is a work of anti representation she simplified her name. to constrain what is it with this measure of conformity the artist wanted to confront the challenge of curating the german trevelyan in venice and the optimal form for doing this is integration of the optimal form got into cuts. that's how has he to happen man is not a pseudonym but an adaptation. so i don't see what. the artist produced videos for the be another. victor journeys to migrant processing centers
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in germany. the centers have been called anchor centers anchor here is a euphemism for rival decision return. the centers service holding camps until people are deported or choose to go back to their countries of origin voluntarily. in korea in italy the artist visited the spot where migrant harvest helpers were killed in a road accident he. kept not just as you to help them and also i chose that tasha as the to happen money because she inspires me very much for significance to make this seem the way she works with different all it forms different forms of knowledge and has successful transitions between music installations and the different sensual impressions that are in policy it meant giving can. look at the french per 1000000000 here to the front entrance is closed. inside there are rocks
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and a dam that reaches to the ceiling it's powerful but permeable. it's a bad spot and possible dams hold back water and the accumulated pressure forms energy. beilein an arch against the pressure that they are expecting but if the pressure is too high or miscalculated and they burst. it's a simple image to illustrate some german people's fear of being inundated with migrants. it doesn't seem as if this wall will hold for very long the other side reveals the simplicity of the installation. the structure is made of wood and cardboard. screech from the speakers the sound. track of protest.
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message clearly received time to move on. the spaces are meant to be for all races you know for all tribes for all communities that dare to speak the truth because it's martially that. this statement could well be the most hope for this year's be in. the dominance of the west is over and vanished to access from the global south especially from asia and africa are represented this year as never before. impossible to miss magnificent self-portrait by the south african photographer and activist. who exposed various roles.
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her gaze is seeking. questioning. demanding. we don't have much presentation at museums at all the world's so i think it's about time it's we. eurasia specifically spaces and also to take ownership of our voices to take ownership of our kaif's we write our own narrative is visual negatives are really important and also for us to say that's we are proud of as black people. proud and joyful this was one of the great emotional moments of this year's be anonymous or from ghana celebrated its 1st national pavilion in venice an exhibition that us 120 years old the country's 1st lady came to the inauguration as a top british architect david adjaye who has canadian roots and who designed the pavilion. and. this
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president wants to ensure that the guards are central to the development of a country central to tourism sokol to the soft power of the country and communicating to the world because of incredible benevolence of a country and its people so that's why we're here and not a small pavilion but a very large to really make a very large state with. just designed plays on good main building traditions creating an intimate space for the sensitive portraits by painter the net your dog watching. the. film and traverses by felicity upon us 1st professional female photographer she started taking pictures at the age of 14 and captured the political developments in ghana which in $157.00 was one of the 1st african countries to gain independence from britain and that narrative informs ghana's 1st pavilion which is untitled gun of freedom. and such
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a powerful statement we have read you know what does that freedom mean what it means than in 1000 fifties that when he got on the pan then what does it mean now how you know how is that freedom grown or not granted what does it mean for us to be free. 6 artists from different generations offer their viewpoints on these questions. john a conference video installation was commissioned especially it's about migration climate change and trust and environment. the works will be displayed in ghana's capital city opera after the begin our act will be accompanied by a series of debates around the gonna freedom project. it's all very well coming to venice you know with the well heeled crowd and doing something like this but what relevance and what resonance that they actually have.
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within the country and not just in our own mean and in the kind of satire where people you know maybe static large galleries but in communities across the country this is very much part of this process. thousands of kilometers lie between ghana and india but only a few meters separate that type of aliens. the world's biggest democracy is being represented in the mass for only the 2nd time the government set the fame the pavilion pays tribute to a national icon mahatma gandhi this year is the 150th anniversary of his birth. every time every time some place is addressed then we do look up gandhi so the idea was to really look at these artists and how they're lewd to all very subtly walk him through his ideas and pronounce values of either p.s. nonviolence passive resistance many milken's option ecological concerns and so on.
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in 1039 mahatma gandhi wrote his 1st letter to as of hitler addressing him as dear friend. that has decided to project the original manuscript onto a smokescreen gunnies failed attempt to prevent a war 5 weeks before germany marched into poland remains very moving today. the center of the work is really the viewer who 1st reads the message in 1st person because the writer says their friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity and i think it's a moment a reflection of your own position and how you imagine the words your own gestures are actually. forced a container called kami to gandhi is a point of reference she explores violence in public space sexual violence india is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women. the artist's works are wearable. so this is protection for
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the female body but the mccann ism is such a live when you're reading it you can move too easily you know the hands move in a particular way the head moves in a particular way so you're trapped the body is trapped in a way and so i'm talking of the things the notion of protection and the motion of being trapped there what does it mean to be a woman in a patriarchal society the artist herself or the arm of a foreman has to do this in the middle of mumbai was courageous. it's getting loud here in the brazilian pavilion. partly fictional documentary that follows the rehearsals for us when garrick
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competition this of culture combines folklore of pop and vogue it's a scene that attracts that involves the l g b t i community and young people from the outskirts of brazil's big says he's. there are poor people from the favelas a socially speaking people who have very very less access to things up in. a white or more privileged class colonial class of people in the northeast have access to so there's a feeling of. collectivity and they space where they get together they recognize each other they understand that they belong to a certain form of existence and and that is mainly for me a very very beautiful form of resistance despite the public power i mean the state the power.
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moreas fighting for self-assertion. there is no hierarchy regarding gender abuse he models just an incredible amount of energy. the. this is being allah deals with some pretty serious topics but also in a very left field and colorful way. shaggy and fairy this could be chewbacca seen from inside. and here she comes. to put out nailed it also known as choppy short for shoplifter alias. the route through her pavilion leads from the darkness to the end of the rainbow. into the sky. the material hair extensions from china as cheap and as many as possible.
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it's like a place they can't just nest. and be embraced by almost like like you know walking into your children book dream world or being embraced by your paper instead of you're bracing the teddy bear it's. basically my main inspiration as humans and human ingenuity and you know the absurdity of the things of the re mass produced for obscure purposes like most of the color hair extensions to be out the to our own hair shop the who was born in reykjavik has been living in new york for a long time. hess cultures have already been displayed at the museum of modern art and on a record cover full fare. as that and
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a. kind of therapy where art seeks to put a few is in a good mood. that was the $21.00 from the venice biennale night with visitors from around the world. thanks for joining us see you again next week.
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