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5/14/2019 The Venice Biennale 2019.
selection of the 10 best pavilions
Nuestro colaborador Aurélien Le Genissel ha visitado estos días la Bienal de

Venecia, esta es su selección de los 10 mejores pabellones, si estás por allí no
te los puedes perder.
1- Lituania
Título: Sun & Sea (Marina)
Artistas: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė y Lina Lapelytė
Comisaria: Lucia Pietroiusti
Con todo merecimiento, ha sido el ganador del León de Oro 2019. Parece ser que, a diferencia de otras ferias o bienales,
Venecia encuentra una cierta unanimidad en sus premios y recompensas -como ya pasó con Anne Imhof y el pabellón
alemán hace dos años. En este caso, el espectador que accede a este gran hangar antiguamente ocupado por la marina
italiana, tiene la posibilidad de observar, desde el primer piso y a través de una especie de balcón, un grupo de personas
deambulando en una playa recreada artificialmente. Una suerte de teatro, a medio camino entre el voyeurismoand the
theatrical show, which soon takes on deeper and more distressing airs. Thanks to some small buses, the actors / holiday
makers begin to sing an opera in which they shed their problems, anguish and the natural catastrophes that have bothered
them in their day to day. An ironic and falsely light criticism of consumption and climate change away from the
paternalistic moralism in which it usually falls. A rarefied environment reminiscent of a photo-life-that Martin Parr would
have taken in some field of post-apocalyptic survivors after the environmental disaster. Without a doubt the best of the
national pavilions.
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Pavilion of Lithuania. Sun & Sea (Marina). Photo: Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy: The Venice Biennial.
2- Philippines
Title: Island Weather
Artist: Mark O. Justiniani
Curator: Tessa Maria T, Guazón
Upon entering the Philippines pavilion it may seem that we are facing an attraction of Port Aventura. Before us are three
large platforms with rounded shapes whose transparent glass floors use the mirror reflection game to give a feeling of
infinite depth. At the top of a tower, the artist watches over us from above. When we take off our shoes, they invite us to
climb up and contemplate the endless landscape that lies at our feet.
All very colorful and fun. But, after this somewhat easy effect, there is a darker and disturbing staging that refers to the
presence of man in a world that seems to disappear. Remains of food, miscellaneous objects, empty glasses, indefinite
pieces and unknown plants are repeated infinitely next to stairs and gaps that seem to go into inhospitable depths but
which are strangely familiar. The Upside Down of the society of the spectacle.
Pavilion of the Philippines. Island Weather. Photo: Italo Rondinella. Courtesy: The Venice Biennial.
3- Uruguay
Title: The Emphatic House
Artist: Yamandú Canosa
Curators: David Armengol and Patricia Bentancur
Far from the spectacularity and the excess of own to Venice is presented "The Emphatic House", this fine, sharp and
delicate proposal perfectly curated by David Armengol and Patricia Bentancur. A review of numerous works by Yamandú
Canosa in which the use of language and play with space offer a new visual narrative that explores the so-called cultural
identity, borders or roots. A horizon plagued by complex references and cross-pieces that invites us to see the world as a
place of welcome rather than as a fragmented puzzle. A sample that goes beyond the hall of the pavilion itself -expanding
itself in the façade- and that, through the use of the territory and geographic references, proposes a subtle reflection on the
national construction.
Pavilion of Uruguay. The empathic house. Photo: Francesco Galli. Courtesy: The Venice Biennial.
4 - Denmark
Title: Heirloom
Artists: Larissa Sansour
Curator: Nat Muller
A separate proposal in two rooms of different format. On the one hand a fascinating black sculpture, large and rounded,
tucked into a dark and narrow room, entitled A Monument for Lost Time . A strange shape whose contours seem to move
and evolve, depending on where we observe it from. On the other, a two-screen video - entitled In Vitro- poetic and tragic,
which shows us the dialogue, the transmission and the relationship between an elderly woman - owner of an underground
plant nursery - and her caregiver. The story takes place in Bethlehem, decades after an ecological catastrophe, and the
young caretaker will be responsible for replanting and repopulating the planet after the disaster, leading a remaining
human community. A fable closer to Becketian existentialism than to science fiction. A beautiful work that offers a
mysterious and poetic approach to the themes of personal and collective memory, history and human responsibility and
the identity of each one.
Denmark Pavilion. Heirloom Photo: Francesco Galli. Courtesy: The Venice Biennial.
5- Switzerland
Title: Moving Backwards
Artists: Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz
Curator: Charlotte Laubard
Backward is the new forward , they are saying out there. Or what is the same: fashion is going backwards. Not literally
back in time. Like the performers of the Swiss pavilion whose trap and techno movements appear in the opposite
direction, in a choreography as hypnotizing as it is strange. The pavilion is presented as a kind of surrounding nightclub in
which the viewer is enveloped by these gestures that, according to the artists themselves, aims to generate new and
alternative forms of resistance and action. All this sprinkled with philosophical quotes about political activism or gender
theory. Be warned: if some day you see a video clip upside down or someone dancing like that in a disco, you know where
it comes from.
Swiss
Pavilion. Moving Backwards. Photos: Francesco Galli. Courtesy: The Venice Biennial.
6 - Ghana
Title: Ghana Freedom
Artists: Felicia Abban, John Akomfrah, The Anatsui, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Ibrahim Mahama and Selasi Awusi Sosu
Curator: Nana Oforiatta Ayim
If only for the wonderful - as always - video "Sea of Whiteness" by John Akomfrah, it is worth noting this bet of Ghana.
But it is also that, in its first participation as a national pavilion, the African country offers a somewhat labyrinthine and
winding route, very well designed by David Adjaye, which highlights the interesting portraits painted by Lynette Yiadom-
Boakye -in 2020 we will see a his retrospective at Tate Britain- or the installation mural, made with bottle caps, by El
Anatsui. Without forgetting "A Straight Line through the Carcass of History 1649 (2016-19)", the spectacular wooden
construction of Ibrahim Mahama. A somewhat dark and ornate pavilion but definitely powerful and very well worked that
should be awarded the prize for best revelation pavilion, if it existed.
Ghana
Pavilion. Ghana Freedom. Photos: Italo Rondinella. Courtesy: The Venice Biennial.
7- Romania
Title: Unfinished conversations on the Weight of Absence
Artists: Belu-Simion Fainaru, Dan Mihaltianu, Miklos Onucsan
Curator: Christian Nae
More conceptual and abstract than most other proposals, Romania has opted to present a reinterpretation of some of the
reference works made by the artists of its scene in the last 40 years. A collage whose ironic, playful and critical dimension
works surprisingly well. Very remarkable is the work of Belu-Simion Fainaru, whose plant welcomes visitors to the door
of the pavilion. A billboard invites us to touch it so that it responds with a cold, digital robot voice. It was hard not to
laugh seeing gentlemen in suits and ladies in dress caressing a branch thinking that the voice really answered - the sound
was still working whether it caressed or not the plant. An interesting critique of this new wave wave of sentimental
ecologism that occasionally floods art lately.
Romanian Pavilion. Unfinished Conversations on the Weight of Absence. Photos: Francesco Galli. Courtesy: The Venice
Biennial.
8 -Australia
Title: Assembly
Artist: Angelica Mesiti
Curator: Juliana Engberg
Angelica Mesiti has wanted to turn the Australian pavilion into a kind of space for community and democracy. To do this,
he has built a sort of agora or red carpet amphitheater in which the spectator can sit down to watch the video of three
screens that surround the place. In it, the artist enters the Italian and Australian Senate to introduce Michela, a stenotype
invented in the nineteenth century to transcribe parliamentary debates. Starting from this apparatus, Meseti has transcribed
a poem by David Malouf that the composer Max Lyandvert has transformed into an opera that resonates in the room
offering a reflection on the universality of language and the limits of translation, dialogue and communication.
Pavilion of Australia. Assembly Photos: Francesco Galli. Courtesy: The Venice Biennial.
9 - Brazil
Title: Swinguerra
Artists Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca,
Curator: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Simple, simple and most effective. This is the Brazilian pavilion that, without making too much noise, was always one of
those who liked in the Venetian discussions. A reflection on the swinguerra -those street dance fights, often featuring
transgender people - divided into two very different parts: the first room presented a series of photographs while, in the
second, an audiovisual installation of two screens projected a video in which you could see an example of a battle between
two groups of young Brazilians. The assembly, with a screen on each side of the room, one in front of the other,
reproduced just the idea of musical confrontation, symmetry and competition of two groups, with the public placed in the
middle as judge or privileged spectator. Always full and very catchy, the proposal is a good way to bring less accepted
cultures to an audience, that of the biennial, unaccustomed to it.
Pavilion of Brazil. Swinguerra. Photos: Francesco Galli. Courtesy: The Venice Biennial.
10- France - Special Mention

Title: Deep See Blue Surrounding You / Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre
Artist: Laure Prouvost
Curator: Martha Kirszenbaum
It deserves a special mention for the buzz that generated this proposal of the always interesting Laure Prouvost. "Have you
seen the French pavilion?" Was the most frequent question in the corridors of the exhibitions in Venice and on the little
paths of the Giardini. The phrase referred to the simple and obvious obviedad -have happened to see it- but above all to
the very long queue -between 45min and 2 hours- that was always in its entrance. I'll be honest: I did not see it. Do not
wait to wait 1 hour, in an openingtwo days, with everything that had to be discovered at that time. I have been told good
things about the way in which the artist treated the space, building a kind of tunnel that, supposedly, was going to unite the
pavilions of France and England, and allowed to enter this way into their dreamlike and fantasized world. Others say that
it is overrated although all highlighted its interesting staging, falsely chaotic and enveloping, full of broken mobiles and
remnants of what looks like the bottom of an ocean, and above all its surrealistic and suggestive air video, made, in part,
in the city itself. I can not really appreciate it but if they go "out of season" it should be one of the possible stops. Even if
only to say that they have seen it, something that is increasingly carried in the world of contemporary art.
Pavilion of France. Deep see blue surrounding you / Vois ce bleu profond te fonder. Photos: Francesco Galli. Courtesy:
The Venice Biennial.
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Text: A. Le Genissel • May 13, 2019
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5/14/2019 The Venice Biennale 2019.

selection of the 10 best pavilions

Nuestro colaborador Aurélien Le Genissel ha visitado estos días la Bienal de

10- France - Special Mention

Mohamed Lara Fluxà,

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