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Diaspora Pavilion (Venice Exhibition)

10 May 2017
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Larry Achiampong, Barby Asante, Sokari Douglas Camp, Kimathi Donkor, Michael Forbes, Ellen Gallagher, Joy Gregory, Isaac Julien, Dave Lewis, Hew Locke, Paul Maheke, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Khadija Saye, Libita Sibungu, Erika Tan, Barbara Walker, Abbas Zahedi, susan pui san lok. View 13 more

Location:

Venice

Khadija Saye, Dwelling: in this space we breathe (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Khadija Saye, Dwelling: in this space we breathe (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Hew Locke, On the Tethys Sea (2017) and susan pui san lok, Untitled (Pavilion) (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Hew Locke, On the Tethys Sea (2017) and susan pui san lok, Untitled (Pavilion) (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Paul Maheke, The River Asked for a Kiss (to Pateh Sabally) (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Paul Maheke, The River Asked for a Kiss (to Pateh Sabally) (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Yinka Shonibare MBE, The British Library (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Yinka Shonibare MBE, The British Library (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Michael Forbes, Untitled (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Michael Forbes, Untitled (2017), installation view Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017)
Barby Asante, As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence: For Ama. For Aba. For Charlotte and Adoja (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Barby Asante, As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence: For Ama. For Aba. For Charlotte and Adoja (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Isaac Julien, The Leopard (Western Union: small boats) (2007), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Isaac Julien, The Leopard (Western Union: small boats) (2007), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Erika Tan, The ‘Forgotten’ Weaver (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Erika Tan, The ‘Forgotten’ Weaver (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Abbas Zahedi, MANNA: Machine Aided Neural Networking of Affect (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Kimathi Donkor, Bacchus and Ariadne (2004), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Kimathi Donkor, Bacchus and Ariadne (2004), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017)
Kimathi Donkor, Portrait of the Artist Helping with Enquiries: 1984 (2005) and For Moses Had Married an Ethiopian Woman – Number 12:1 (2015) and Barby Asante, As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence: For Ama. For Aba. For Charlotte and Adoja (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Kimathi Donkor, Portrait of the Artist Helping with Enquiries: 1984 (2005) and For Moses Had Married an Ethiopian Woman – Number 12:1 (2015) and Barby Asante, As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence: For Ama. For Aba. For Charlotte and Adoja (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Ellen Gallagher & Edgar Cleijne, Osedax (2010), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017)
Larry Achiampong, Sunday’s Best (2016), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Larry Achiampong, Sunday’s Best (2016), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017)
Abbas Zahedi, MANNA: Machine Aided Neural Networking of Affect (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Abbas Zahedi, MANNA: Machine Aided Neural Networking of Affect (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017). Image by Francesco Allegretto.
Dave Lewis, Once Removed (2011), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017)
Barby Asante, As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence: For Ama. For Aba. For Charlotte and Adoja (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017)
Abbas Zahedi, MANNA: Machine Aided Neural Networking of Affect (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Abbas Zahedi, MANNA: Machine Aided Neural Networking of Affect (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Sokari Douglas Camp, All the World is now Richer (2012) Diaspora Pavilion (2017) Venice. Image by Francesco Allegretto
Barby Asante, As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence: For Ama. For Aba. For Charlotte and Adoja (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Barby Asante, As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence: For Ama. For Aba. For Charlotte and Adoja (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Barby Asante, As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence: For Ama. For Aba. For Charlotte and Adoja (2017), Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
Libita Clayton, Untitled (2017), performance, Diaspora Pavilion Venice Closing Programme (2017).
Libita Clayton, Untitled (2017), performance, Diaspora Pavilion Venice Closing Programme (2017).
Abbas Zahedi, Me, Myself & A.I. (MANNA, a digital archive) (2017), performance lecture, Diaspora Pavilion Venice Closing Programme (2017).
Katarzyna Perlak, Vulnerable (2017), performance, Diaspora Pavilion Venice Closing Programme (2017).
Justyna Scheuring, Interval (2017), performance, Diaspora Pavilion Venice Closing Programme (2017).
Roundtable discussion, Diaspora Pavilion Closing Programme (2017).
Roundtable discussion, Diaspora Pavilion Closing Programme (2017).
Justyna Scheuring, Interval (2017), Diaspora Pavilion Venice Closing Programme
Griet Menschaert, Strolling through the grass on the other side (2017), performance, Diaspora Pavilion Venice Closing Programme (2017)
Beyond the Frame and Diaspora Pavilion launch event, Chelsea College of Art, London (2016) Image by Alex Burgess
Beyond the Frame and Diaspora Pavilion launch event, Chelsea College of Art, London (2016) Image by Alex Burgess

Diaspora Pavilion was a major exhibition curated by David Bailey and Jessica Taylor, which was conceived as a challenge to the prevalence of national pavilions within the structure of the Venice Biennale. It took its form from the coming-together of nineteen artists whose practices in many ways expand, complicate and even destabilise diaspora as a term, whilst highlighting the continued relevance that diaspora as a lived reality holds today.