Jennie Hirsh: Talk at Palazzo San Niccolò

• The Milk of Dreams: Curating Contemporary Art in the Face of a Pandemic

This lecture explores last year’s Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams with a view toward understanding how the pandemic affected both the process and product of mounting the latest edition of this large-scale, contemporary art exhibition. Organized by New York-based Italian curator Cecilia Alemani, the two-part show, titled after a book by surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, focused on themes ranging from the body and transformation to the unconscious and desire. By exploring surrealism, past and present, through a combination of works by mostly women and non-binary artists, the show juxtaposed dreams and nightmares as a way of reflecting on and moving forward from this fraught moment in history while taking stock of social injustices and other dystopian themes along the way.

Join Jennie Hirsh, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art for this fascinating look at art in today’s times.  

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 Members: 20 euro including drink

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