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A final letter from Venice thumb

A final letter from Venice

I’ve been home from the Venice Biennale for almost three months now and I’m thinking about the work I saw and what impressions have stayed with me.

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A Letter from Venice – Part Three: Shezad Dawood's 'Leviathan' thumb

A Letter from Venice – Part Three: Shezad Dawood's 'Leviathan'

The underlying theme of this work — migration — is to be found throughout the Biennale but Dawood filters it through a lens of dystopian fiction and biology which has the effect of questioning rather than recounting stories of exodus and displacement.

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A Letter from Venice – Part One: Orientation thumb

A Letter from Venice – Part One: Orientation

Truman Capote described Venice as ‘like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go’. That counts double when you’re trying to absorb a lot of art as well as admire the place. This is the third time I’ve visited the Biennale and the first time I’ve done so outside of Press Week. Frankly it was a relief to spend time looking at the work and not searching for free food and/or Prosecco.

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