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...T. J. Demos A visually sumptuous film of thirty minutes, Steve McQueen’s Giardini (2009) comprises two side-by-side projections of a series of evocative vignettes that play out in the shadow of the Venice Biennale. This essay offers a close reading of the film, drawing out its unexpected...

...Vanessa Rocco Steve McQueen’s Giardini , a ravishing half-hour dual projection, comprises vignettes recorded around the national pavilions that are the principal organizing spaces of the Venice Biennale. Fluctuating among images of serene nature and images of trash, piles of building materials...

...Holiday Powers Occurring every two years, the Venice Biennale remains a key node for contemporary art. In Venice, in addition to a main exhibition, national pavilions are located primarily between the two main biennale sites, the Giardini and the Arsenale, and collateral events are scattered across...

..., Giardini, featuring the work of Bertina Lopes, Rubem Valentim, and Victor Fotso Nyiem. Photo by author Lathrop Nka 89 Bertina Lopes, Os Meninos de Mafalala, 1963. Oil on canvas, 137 x 60 cm. Courtesy estate of the artist, Rome; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; and Richard Saltoun Gallery, London. Photo...

... descended en masse on the city. Those whose credentials or well-placed connections garnered them access to the exclusive press preview day spanned out across the biennale s two main sites, the Giardini and the Arsenale, getting a first glimpse of this year s edition, sharing early impressions...

... countries the opportunity to flex their cultural muscle, project their ideals, and celebrate their artists accomplishments. This is what Egypt has done since 1938, before acquiring its permanent pavilion at the Giardini in 1952. Most African countries that have established stable pavilions (like South...

...- the looming figure cannot intimidate, because we tors divided across two centralized venues on the know that it would be strangled by its own glisten- Giardini and Arsenale grounds. Curiger selected ing ties of dangling excess if it tried to move. Hlo- only three artists from sub-­Saharan Africa for bo’s...

... of civilization in progress, or a violent exploitation and genocide. 56 In turn, Echakhch states that whenever she sees a garden, I immediately think about colonialism. . . . I cannot avoid thinking about what the Giardini of the Biennale in Venice really is . . . pavilions transplanted from various countries...

... Wendt Nka • 69 A labyrinthine path between two gardens—from continuous live readings, songs, recitals, and film the Giardini to Il Giardino delle Vergine—is illumi- projections, Enwezor clearly defines his curatorial nated with works that tell the stories that need to agenda. be told...

... for the project was the sis, is a state of dissonance between an ideal and a Nordic Pavilion itself. It’s one of the most beauti- disruption of that ideal, a state in which this active ful pavilions in the Giardini, and its deceptively space depicts a contradiction, then a becoming. simple architecture...