One Could Or Did Contemplate

Tania David
October 2015

A Few Of The Things One Could Or Did Contemplate at the Venice Biennale in 2015

experience and reflection on human existence

poetically expressed

finity of natural existence

infinity of abstract thought

an archetypal tool

transformation of material

transience of life

nature=art

diversity is a physical and existential fact

a point randomly placed in space

global politics

cruel reality of contemporary world

world finance

function of art

imagine a future

where the existing nature of art

is no longer relevant

keys=knowledge

universal ideals

personal struggles

spatial experience

a state of flux

uncertainty of life

unattainable salvation

archaic values

a river

smell of tar and charcoal

origins of civilization

space

dark infinite matter

fleeting cycles of life

a toxic landscape

a slow catastrophe

a confection

a dessert

big black cats

sarcastic look at serious art

video layering

video installation

oral tradition

cultural modernity

insight into artistic, cultural and intellectual forms

caused by colonial encounters

a ghost shelter

a moment against amnesia

importance of incompleteness

an opera that connects

2 culturally and geographically distant countries

video stories

woodsheds and garages

chain saws and deforestation

human presence in space

sonic installation

refugee activists

a  sunrise-sunset performance

11 meter mediterranean whale

a silent witness

an acoustic environment

symmetry of ideology

united dark nation

nations that no longer exist

juxtapose history with today

revisit paradigms of the avant-garde

vulnerability and instability

of historical assertions

sustainable identities

white balls going through clear tubes

trees that move

steel dragons over still water

a possible starting point

All images courtesy of Tania David