REVIEW: 56th Venice Biennale – with Crystal Bennes and Tom Jeffreys
Art, art, art, Aperol, ice cream, and extremely sore feet: yes, we’re back for the 56th instalment of the Venice Biennale. And this time, it’s political.
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55th Venice Biennale – Day 3 by Crystal Bennes and Tom Jeffreys
The video installation was completely beautiful and genuinely harrowing. It touched on so many of the threads that ran through the rest of the Biennale – the relationship between documenting subject and documented object; the resistance of the world’s complexities to singular narrative overlay; the overlooked and oppressed; the violence of exclusion – but with so much more urgency, dexterity and force. Totally brilliant.
55th Venice Biennale – Day 2 by Crystal Bennes and Tom Jeffreys
What gives? As for the work, well, what work, really? It’s essentially artists doing variations on wallpaper. Needless to say, I didn’t love it.
55th Venice Biennale Day 1 By Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys
I really hated this – Deller’s pseudo-inclusive schtick really riles me because it’s the same old self-serving art cliques who benefit from his success and ‘the people’ who he seems so keen to represent don’t really stand to gain a thing.
The Woman, The Gaze, The World at Hanmi Gallery Private view Wednesday 24th April
A new exhibition curated by Crystal Bennes, The Woman, The Gaze, The World is loosely themed around a picking apart of the question of whether women see the world differently than men.
SALON (LONDON) presents: ‘Secret’ Private View Wednesday 23rd June 2010
The second exhibition staged by SALON (LONDON) continues its objective of using nontraditional spaces, but shifts focus from the large-scale… Read More