A mural by artist Maurizio Cattelan is seen outside Giudecca Women's Prison hosting the Holy See pavilion during the pre-opening of the 60th Venice Biennale art show, on April 18, 2024 in Venice. — AFP picVENICE, April 22 — Venice’s 60th Biennale international art show has opened its doors, exploring humankind’s relationship with the fragile planet, from Greenland’s icecaps to deforestation in the Amazon.
Decomposed fruits were linked to electrode wires, which control sound by adjusting the degree of humidity, appealing to all the visitor’s senses.The artist aimed to show how “human creativity can really bring about some hopes and solutions when a lot of things are critical”, said Sook-Kyung Lee, curator of the Japan pavilion.
“I like to establish a contact between human beings to talk about the importance of an environmental issue, to think about it in a global way,” said artist and Indigenous activist Olinda Tupinamba.A collaborative project from the Czech Republic, entitled “The heart of a giraffe in captivity weighs 12 kilos less”, looks back at the tragic fate of Lenka, captured in Kenya in 1954 and transported to Prague Zoo, where she survived for just two years.