For the first time, most of the artists at this year’s Venice Biennale are female. Cecilia Alemani’s main show, titled “The Milk of Dreams,” opened on April 23 after a one-year pandemic delay.

Venice Biennale – A Brief History!

The Biennale was started in 1895 and now has more than 500,000 people come to the Art Exhibition every odd-numbered year.  When it comes to art and culture, the Venice Biennale has been one of the world’s most important places for more than 120 years.

Some of the most famous artists of the 20th and 21st centuries were there to show their work. As well as a number of important art critics and art historians. All of these people help to create the “diversity of voices” that the event has been known for.

Sonia Boyce, Artist

During this year’s Venice Biennale, British artist Sonia Boyce won the top Golden Lion award for her work Feeling Her Way. This piece used video collage, music, and sculpture. Boyce is the first black woman in the UK to be a representative of the country.

Videos of five black female musicians who play with their voices are in her work. In the British pavilion, there are sounds that are sometimes harmonious and other times conflicting, but they all make you feel like you’re free, powerful, and vulnerable. That’s what the British Council, which hired the artist, says.

Simone Leigh, Sculptor

Artist Simone Leigh has made a bronze sculptor of a black woman that is 16 feet tall. Her body is made up of a skirt and a clay house. The sculpture’s head is adorned with afro braids, each of which ends in a shell on the top of its head. 

Yuki Kihara, Artist

In New Zealand’s pavilion this year, artist Yuki Kihara has recreated Paul Gauguin’s Tahiti paintings based on images of Samoa’s Fa’afaafine. Fa’afafine is a term meaning “in the manner of a woman” and refers to Samoa’s third gender.

She has collected posters, colonial replica portraits, news articles and pamphlets about the community. Paradise Camp is her imagined perfect world of inclusivity and sensitivity.

 

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