the venice bienalle, one of the most prestigious events in the international art calendar, and ellen gallagherinvited to exhibit a series of new works, each of which incorporate paintings, drawings and collage. ellen: i really think traveling in and out of painting and drawings -- and i think a lot of people -- a lot of time people categorize things, they want to categorize things as drawing or painting or film. for me, it is all one thing. narrator: as well as using an ellenof different media, has drawn inspiration from a wide range of subjects from literature to the physical beauty of the islands that make up the caribbean. ellen: for me, the interesting thing about the idea of the archipelago is that it is this slip that happens consciously, where on the one sense, it is the description of the sea, the broken up sea. on the other hand, i always understood it as a particular set of islands or nations together. it could be cabo verde or hawaii or the caribbean. but the idea of it being the kind of visible space and less visible or less readable space is interesting to me is that they exist to

in this program, american painter and filmmaker ellen gallagher.