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Venice Biennale 2022: the 7 most interesting highlights from Asian pavilions at the international art exhibition
- Without participation from India, Indonesia, Malaysia or Pakistan, the 2022 Venice Biennale was light on Asian pavilions
- Here are the Asian highlights from the exhibition, with artworks from China, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Macau, Nepal and Mongolia
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Yet “The Milk of Dreams”, titled after a book by the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, scores poorly when it comes to geographical diversity, with few works reflecting Asian perspectives.
That and the absence of India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan in the national pavilion line-up means that Asian presence in Venice is relatively muted.
Still, there are 18 pavilions from the region when the broadest definition of Asia as a geographic category is applied. Here are some of the most interesting ones apart from Hong Kong, which has been reviewed separately.
China
The group exhibition called “Meta-scape” is fascinating because all the artworks inside the dark and cavernous China pavilion seem to highlight the fluidity and imagined nature of places, as opposed to a homogeneous and exceptional “traditional Chinese culture”.
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