British Council commission for the British Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale - Sarah Lucas

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Since 1938 the British Council has been responsible for the British Pavilion in Venice, showing British artists at the longest-running, most prestigious international art biennale in the world: the Venice Biennale of Art. Sarah Lucas has been selected to represent Britain at the 56th Venice Biennale. She will present a much-anticipated solo exhibition in the British Pavilion, which will run from 9 May to 22 November 2015.

Over the course of two decades, Lucas has become recognised as one of Britain’s most significant contemporary artists. Spanning sculpture, photography and installation, her work has consistently been characterised by irreverent humour and the use of everyday ‘readymade' objects – furniture, food, tabloid newspapers, tights, toilets, cigarettes – to conjure up sexual puns and corporeal fragments. By turns brutal and elegiac, lewd and lyrical, Lucas’s art has continued to confront such ‘big themes’ as sex, death and abjection.