Curated by: Francesca Chiacchio, Zasha Colah, Sumesh Sharma.
Transnational Pavilion is an independent and self-funded initiative, founded by Mihaela Brebenel for the 54th Venice Biennale.
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The 2nd Transnational Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale revolves around the lack of presence.
This kind of absence characterizes the Transnational Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. A concept exists. A list of artists also features in this communication. As such, this absence shall therefore not be understood as any form of retreat, unobserved debris or miscellaneous otherness. On the contrary, this absence is simply a continuation of a reduced scale, which started two years before in the cloud of questions around the grand-scale event which is the Venice Biennale.
Known to most West Africans, the Bantu proverb made famous by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe during an interview with the Paris Review: "There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
The 2nd edition of the Transnational Pavilion takes place in 12 commercial places in Venice and it engages 22 international artists.
