There’s less glitz and glamour, more a mood of solemnity at the 60th edition of the Biennale, with revelatory work from Nigeria, Bulgaria and the global south living up to the festival’s provocative subtitle, Foreigners Everywhere…
There’s less glitz and glamour, more a mood of solemnity and concern at the 60th edition of the Biennale, with revelatory work from Nigeria, Bulgaria and the global south living up to the festival’s provocative subtitle, Foreigners Everywhere…
But this dirt is an intimation of the earthen tower that rises inside, setting for an extraordinary memoir of his Turkish immigrant grandfather by Mondtag, a theatre director. Visitors queue to enter into an atmosphere of drifting dust, ascending from a broken workshop in the basement via spiral stairs to a cracked kitchen and ghostly bedroom where a sleeping female actor suddenly wakes to a ringing phone.
Upstairs, like Holbein before them, other immigrants arrive in Britain, from Africa and the Caribbean. Scenes from their lives appear in degraded period footage, or as performed by actors positioned like chess pieces in the rolling green landscape. Each scene hangs before you like a picture, then quickens into motion before cross-fading with another. This is imagist poetry by other means.
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