WHAT TO SEE

1 EXILE IS A HARD JOB

Turkish feminist artist Nil Yalter, one of two winners of this year’s Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement, will present a new version of her ongoing project, Exile is a Hard Job, which started in 1975. The installation tackles the issue of social ostracisation afflicting those living in foreign lands, through the medium of photos and drawings. It will be the first time the octogenarian has ever shown work at the Biennale, and it’ll be displayed in the Central Pavilion at the Giardini.

2 COSMIC GARDEN

Indian artists Madhvi and Manu Parekh have collaborated with Mumbai’s Chanakya School of Craft, which focuses on empowering women, for this showcase at Venice’s Salone Verde. Paintings and sculptures inspired by Indian culture will be centred around expressionism, modernism and female deities, and will be presented along with reimaginings of the works as hand-embroidered pieces. Some 320 female artisans have been involved in handcrafting the works, which use organic materials such as silk.

3 KA’A PÛERA: WE ARE WALKING BIRDS

The Brazil Pavilion will be renamed the Hãhãwpuá Pavilion this year, for a takeover by Glicéria Tupinambá — an artist, activist and representative of the Tupinambá Indigenous community of Serra do Padeiro and Olivença, from Southern Bahia — along with two other Indigenous artists, Olinda Tupinambá and Ziel Karapotó. Hãhãwpuá is an Indigenous name for the lands that became Brazil, and the exhibition will confront the marginalisation of Brazil’s Indigenous communities since colonisation.