The Pavilion of the Maldives of the 55th Venice Biennale “Portable Nation”

Venue: Fondazione Pescheria-Centro Arti Visive
Starts: Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Ends: Sunday, November 2, 2014
Address: Corso XI Settembre, 184 Pesaro info: +39 0721-387651/653
Location: Italy
Organiser: Curated by Camilla Boemio

At the Maldives Pavilion curated by the Chamber of Public Secrets, invited artists, environmental campaigners and thinkers from around the world presented a collection of thoughts on preserving and archiving the Maldivian memory, history and the visual representation of the sinking paradise.

Since its opening, this eco-pavilion has also presented over a six-month period a significant number of parallel projects to the main exhibition. The events of the Pavilion’s public program have provided not only an aesthetic experience, but they have afforded new opportunities and forums for the expansion of many of the themes which emerged conceptually and artistically in Pavilion exhibition, related to the concept of contemporary ‘environmental romanticism’.

The special presentation of ‘Portable Nation’ at the Fondazione Pescheria is curated by Camilla Boemio. With this selection of works, Boemio re-proposes elements of the Pavilion as a site-specific exhibition for the Church of the Suffragio. The contributing artists are: Ursula Biemann, Stefano Cagol, Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski, and Sama Alshaibi.

Through these parallel initiatives of the Maldives Pavilion, a broader public has been given the opportunity to apply their individual knowledge and daily experiences towards a better understanding and appreciation of both broader environmental issues, but also about the processes of preservation within the very challenging and particular ecological situation of the isles of the Maldives.

The Fondazione Pescheria exhibition opened on the 11th of October to coincide with the annual Day of Contemporary Art of AMACI (Association of Italian Museums of Contemporary Art), which is organized each year throughout Italy to bring the current art of our times to an extended public. This exhibition will run until 2nd November.

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Fabio Lattanzi Antinori

My practice encompasses sculpture, print, sound, poetry and interactive installations and it attempts to provide an understanding of the process by which notions of belief and the perception of reality are being shaped and shared between the world of corporate systems and the individual. More recently, my artistic research has focused on the world and language of the International Finance, as after all, as Neil MacGregor once defined it, the whole financial system depends on voluntary acts of faith. It is precisely this fictional aspect of money, the co-operational act of agreeing on its value and its consequent moral obligations that derive from such a shared view of reality that drives my interest and artistic production. I incorporate elements of the invisible yet pervasive domain of digital technology and responsive materials in my works, in order to manifest that which is otherwise intangible; coded surfaces and data informed structured so become a tool of investigation of the constant act of negotiation that goes behind the system of information we call tangible reality. My process is often collaborative and research based. From collaborating with RCA graduates in developing an innovative sensor based technology, to working with English and Chinese opera singers to create interactive artworks with a strong choral vocal component, to commissioning data analysts, scientists and a financial astrologer to forecast the value of International Finance markets, to working with an economist and explore ways to re-imagine the market driven society through language and poetry. Selected solo shows comprehend the MoCA Shanghai (2016), Ryder Projects (London, 2016), Museum für angewandte Kunst, (Vienna 2013); selected group shows comprehend the National Museum of Science and Technology (Milan, 2017), the Holon Museum (2017), the Galerie Für Gegenwartskunst (Freiburg 2017), the Odessa Biennale (August 2017), the participation in the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art (Hangzhou, September 2016), the Kaunas Biennale, (2015), PiArtworks Gallery (London 2015), the Guest Projects (London, 2015), New York University (2015), the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (on-line, 2015), the Watermans Arts Centre (London, 2015 and 2014), the V&A London (London, 2014), the Contemporary Art Terminal (Shenzen, 2013) the Open Data Institute (London, 2012). Public collections that have acquired my work include the V&A (London), the Villa Lagarina Civic Museum (Rovereto) and the Crespina Civic Museum (Pisa); private collections include the Open Data Institute (London) and various private collections in Trento, Milan, London and Rome.