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Algeria at the heart of the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale

2022-02-17T17:32:37.413Z


WE WERE THERE - The press conference of the French Institute has been relocated to Gennevilliers where the artist, Zineb Sedira grew up. A lot of diplomacy at work for a highly anticipated pavilion.


Once is not custom.

The traditional press conference, usually so formal, organized by the French Institute for the French Pavilion of the next 59th Venice Biennale was not held in Paris.

Neither at the Center Pompidou as for Anri Sala, an artist of Albanian origin with a degree in Decorative Arts and living in Paris, who dazzled the 55th Biennale with his

Ravel/Unravel

installation in 2013. But in Gennevilliers, a commune in Hauts-de-Seine located 2.1 km northwest of Paris.

Change of scenery.

A bus was waiting for the press, Place de Clichy, Wednesday February 16 at 10 a.m.

He walked along the ring road to Renzo Piano's courthouse, entered this inner suburbs that many of the guests did not know.

An hour later, because of the narrowings placed in these small residential streets, he had to stop before reaching the Jean-Vigo Cinema at 1 rue Pierre and Marie Curie in Gennevilliers.

Metro Les Agnettes (line 13).

There, under its arcades at…

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Source: lefigaro

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