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One of my highlights was visiting Rebecca Ackroyd’s ‘Mirror Stage’, a collection of new works looking at the fragmentation of reality
The installation showed her large-scale sculptures and her very first paintings
I liked very much the Benin Pavilion’s ‘Everything Precious Is Fragile’ focusing on migration and decolonisation. I found some beautiful painting by Romuald Hazoumé
The most exciting moment for me was at the Prada Foundation where Christoph Büchel’s show filled every corner
There was room after room suggesting human presence recently abandoned. Layer upon layer of history, with the building being built in the 15th century
There was art everywhere, including a loan from the Uffizi Galleries. Michael Landy’s work ‘Break Down’ was spotted in one of the rooms
Trevor Yeung’s ‘Courtyard of Attachments’ at Hong Kong Pavilion touched on the artists life, his father’s food shop, childhood pet fish, pet shops and feng shui. The empty fish tanks touched on current climate crisis perhaps
Lost in Venice and spotted Lorcan O’Neill in his new gallery
The highlight of the day was cheering on the Australian Pavilion where artist Archie Moore created ‘kith and kin’. Which drew upon his personal history. Archie won The Golden Lion for this presentation. He created a sprawling chalk on blackboard family tree that traced his relations back 65,000 years. The chalk patterns contained empty spaces, that reflect the disease, colonial laws, massacres and displacement of history. It was a well deserved win.
Finally, we made it to see the glorious Planète Lalanne show at Ben Brown Fine Arts. The beautiful palace was adorned with jewel-like functional furniture. Here’s Fatima Maleki, Yvonne Winkler and myself enjoying the home comforts of such a beautiful space
