04.18.2024
Sit-in protest by the international artist collective ANGA in front of the Israel pavilion. The exhibition is closed to the public by choice of the curator “until a ceasefire is agreed and the hostages are freed”, reports the message. But for “Art Not Genocide” it was not enough, they had formed an alliance and started collecting signatures to ask for the exclusion of Israel from the sixtieth Art Biennial. Pro-Palestine procession and slogan.
The tensions of the conflict in the Middle East enter the pavilions …of the Venice International Art Exhibition. Maximum alert. The army arrives in front of the Israeli sector. Police forces at the entrance, plainclothes officers. Armored biennial: one of the sensitive objectives identified by the Interior Ministry. There is a “lone wolf” risk: people who commit terrorist actions without coordination, alone, and therefore aim for crowded places. And they could also be migrants: eyes on the border with Slovenia to the North-East. A Biennial that this year features foreigners, refugees, outsiders. The theme chosen by the curator Adriano Pedrosa who respects and defined the artist’s choice of the Israel Pavilion as courageous. And so the War Biennial also becomes the showcase of the world with works, portraits and appeals that invade Venice. A noose hung by the Italy-Iran Association appears on the Accademia bridge. the protest for the presence of the Islamic Republic at the Art Biennale, to remember the young Iranians hanged every day by the ayatollah regime.
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