The BIENNALE D'ARTE of Venezia from my personal point of view - HUMAN FRAME

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Waheeda Malullah- A villager's day out in Kingdom of Bahrain pavilion

This series of photographs follows a day’s outing by a young village girl, full of excitement and adventure but reverberated by apprehension through her shrouded abaya.

Maria Cristina Finucci - The garbage patch state- Ca’ Foscari University

In an effort to raise awareness of the five big patches of plastic waste forming in the centers of the ocean's gyres, UNESCO has declared them to be a new nation at the "High Seas, Our Future! Conference," held in mid April in Paris.
Floating bits of discarded plastic-bottle caps, fishing nets, bags and sundry tinier pieces-cluster together in the north and south Atlantic, the north and south Pacific and the Indian oceans. The plastic "islands" form in the dead zones in the center of the major oceanic gyres, which circulate the ocean. The currents warm Europe and bring things like hurricanes and conquistadors to the Caribbean.

The most famous garbage patch, which we dove into a few years back, (see the below) is in the North Pacific and is sometimes known as the Pacific Trash Vortex. It has been estimated that plastics account for up to 80 percent of ocean pollution and the gathering debris carries with it a cloud of chemical pollutants. The pollution varies in concentration, which is why some people say it's bigger than Texas, why some people say it's bigger than two Texases, and why at least Maria Cristina Finucci decided it should be a country: Wasteland 
http://www.garbagepatchstate.org 

Walter de Maria – Apollo’s Ecstasy

(text: artpostblog – pictures: me)

The work of Walter De Maria has been associated with Minimalism, Conceptualism and Land Art, though it has never fit comfortably in any single category. De Maria was one of the first contemporary artists to Envision large-scale land works. The works of 55° Venice Biennale is Apollo's Ecstasy (1990).
With 20 solid bronze rods arranged in diagonal rows, alludes to a dichotomy from classical mythology. Apollo embodies the principles of reason, form and classification, in opposition to the ecstatic Dionysus, a champion of debauched pleasure and the breakdown of  boundaries and categories. The work suggests a site in which opposites exist in delicate balance, with the pure, defined forms of the brass rods counterpoised against the boundlessness of an infinite Mathematical sequence.

Kaspars Podnieks and Krišs Salmanis, North by Northeast -Latvian pavilion

This work explores the artists’ energetic relationship to the natural and ever-shifting man-made world—including perceived borders and centers in Europe—and that investigate the concepts and conditions of identity, uncertainty, and the ‘in-between.