Tourist ship being pulled by tug out of the lagoon past St Mark's. Some people who weren't tourists, knowing what damage the ships do, had their middle finger up towards the ship. I think the passengers thought people were waving.
This was part of a small exhibition outside the Biennale in a park near the Arsenale.
Just a corner of Venice - you see these small devotionals on various corners in the city. This one seemed rather colourful. In the Cannaregio area, which is where we were staying (an Airbnb flat on the third floor with no stairs, had a lovely view of the roof tops towards the island of Burano).
Couple of gondolieri checking their phones whilst waiting for customers.
The hands.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/venices-new-hands-sculpture
This was the best ever bit of the Biennale for me. Absolutely incredible.
Shilpa Gupta. The largish room had what looked like microphones hanging down from the ceiling but were in fact speakers. Then there were spikes beneath each microphone with small sheets of paper carrying words from books which had been banned over the centuries. Every now an again you could hear these words through the microphone-speakers. Quite amazing. She also did another piece which was a large gate crashing against a cement wall which gradually shows the form of the gate which gets more deeply marked as the gate bashes into it. All very meaningful if you care to put a meaning to it.
Me!!
Quite stunning work by a large number of women who boiled some kind of seed pod (cotton I think) with the cotton in it, then removed the cotton from withing to produce these solid shapes.
Liz
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