Exhibition
59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams
23 Apr 2022 – 27 Nov 2022
Venice
Venice, Italy
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Children’s Game #27: Rubi, Tabacongo, DR Congo, 2021, 6’18’’, In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Félix Blume (© Courtesy the artist)
Exhibition
Francis Alÿs, Belgian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale
23 Apr 2022 – 27 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Giardini della Biennale
- Calle Giazzo
- Venice
Veneto - 30122
- Italy
Event map
For the exhibition in the Belgian Pavilion, Alÿs presents a selection of new short films shot since 2017 in Iraq, Hong Kong, Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, Mexico, to name a few.
About
Filming without interfering in the games, Alÿs reveals the hidden rules of playing, the ingenious interaction of the children with their environment, their deep complicity and their hopeful mood and joy. The installation in the Pavilion invites the visitor to walk through a labyrinth of screens as if they were in the middle of a global playground. The sound and image of the different films interact with each other, fragments forming together a whole, allegories translating the complexity of a sometimes harsh reality.
A series of small paintings covering a period from 1994 to 2021 accompanies the video presentation providing the context in which some of the films were made. From Kabul to Ciudad Juárez, from Jerusalem to Shanghai, they unfold Alÿs’ distinct poetic sensibility towards social and political concerns.
