Artist Stan Douglas is representing Canada at prestigious Vienna exhibition

Vancouver artist Stan Douglas is Canada’s first ever Black consultant on the Venice Biennale

Canadian artist Stan Douglas has been chosen as Canada’s consultant on the prestigious Vienna Biennale exhibition.

Douglas, who hails from Vancouver, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses pictures, theatre, and movie. His submission for the Biennale exhibition contains two works.  The primary, 2011 ≠ 1848, a group of pictures impressed by the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Arab Spring and its similarities with the 1848 “Springtime of Nations” which noticed quite a few anti-aristocracy revolts in Europe. The second, a video set up titled ISDN, takes place simply earlier than 2011 and options movies of United Kingdom grime artists alongside movies of Mahraganat artists, who combine hip-hop, techno, and Egyptian folks music.

It will mark Douglas’s fifth look on the Biennale, though it’s his first time as Canada’s official consultant. He’s the primary Black artist to be chosen as Canada’s consultant on the exhibit, which is taken into account by some to be essentially the most prestigious on this planet.

Listed below are some pictures of Douglas’s Biennale displays, courtesy of the Venice Biennale and Nationwide Gallery of Canada.