Artist Stan Douglas is representing Canada at the Venice Biennale
Vancouver artist Stan Douglas is Canada’s first ever Black consultant on the prestigious exhibition
Canadian artist Stan Douglas has been chosen as Canada’s consultant on the prestigious Venice Biennale exhibition.
Douglas, who hails from Vancouver, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses images, theatre, and movie. His submission for the Biennale exhibition consists of two works. The primary, 2011 ≠ 1848, a group of images impressed by the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Arab Spring and its similarities with the 1848 “Springtime of Nations” which noticed a variety of 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. Listed below are some pictures of Douglas’s Biennale reveals, courtesy of the Venice Biennale and Nationwide Gallery of Canada.
