On view at La Biennale di Venezia 2022

Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848
23 April–27 November 2022
59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022

Stan Douglas represents Canada at the 59th International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia 2022.

Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848 draws a comparison between the events of 2011 and those of 1848, a year in which continent-wide upheaval found European middle and working classes allied in a fight against a lack of democratic freedoms, restrictions on the press, and the continued dominance of an aristocratic elite.

ISDN, 2022 is a major new two-channel video installation by Stan Douglas, which will be presented in the Magazzini del Sale No. 5.

Four large-scale photographs from the series 2011 ≠ 1848, 2021 will be shown in the Canada Pavilion in the Giardini.

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59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
The Milk of Dreams
23 April–27 November 2022

Paula Rego and Kudzanai-Violet Hwami in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Cecilia Alemani and including 213 artists from 58 countries.

‘The Milk of Dreams takes its title from a book by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in which the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination,’ writes curator Cecilia Alemani. ‘The exhibition The Milk of Dreams takes Leonora Carrington’s otherworldly creatures, along with other figures of transformation, as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human…’

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Image: Stan Douglas on set in Cairo, 2021

Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner

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