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Video project by Yael Bartana.

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Video project by Yael Bartana.

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Video project by Yael Bartana.

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"Effigy of an Effigy with Mirage," by Hany Armanious - with some help from Picasso.

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"Garbage" that's cast entirely from polyurethane resin.

Photo by Greg Wight, Courtesy Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
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A wrecked monochrome

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Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are the young Puerto Rican duo filling the American Pavilion this year. At this morning’s pre-preview of the Biennale (it opens to the public on Saturday) Allora and Calzadilla launched our nation’s contribution by getting two American gymnasts, one male and one female, to do routines in two of the pavilion’s Palladian spaces.

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Another piece of theirs prepared just for Venice is called “Algorithm,” and consists of a huge, custom-built pipe organ that reaches up into the cathedral ceiling of one of the building’s spaces. It sets up our national pavilion as a national art-church.

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