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✓ Published: 16-May-2024
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Official description: For its pavilion at Biennale Arte 2024, Austria presents conceptual artist Anna Jermolaewa. In her work, the artist — born in Leningrad (USSR) and living in Vienna since 1989 — proves to be an astute observer of human coexistence, its social conditions and political requisites. For the Austrian contribution, Jermolaewa draws an arc from her personal experience of migration as a political refugee to signifiers of nonviolent resistance against authoritarian regimes. In Rehearsal for Swan Lake, made in collaboration with Ukrainian choreographer Oksana Serheieva, Jermolaewa references a memory from her teenage years. In times of political unrest, for instance the death of a head of state, Soviet television replaced their regularly scheduled broadcast with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake in a loop for days. In Soviet cultural memory, the famous ballet became code for a change in power. Jermolaewa and Serheieva turn the ballet from a tool of censorship and distraction into a form of political protest — here, the dancers rehearse for regime change in Russia.<br/><br/>Anna Jermolaewa / Pavilion of Austria at Venice Art Biennale 2024. Venice (Italy), April 19, 2024.
Official description: For its pavilion at Biennale Arte 2024, Austria presents conceptual artist Anna Jermolaewa. In her work, the artist — born in Leningrad (USSR) and living in Vienna since 1989 — proves to be an astute observer of human coexistence, its social conditions and political requisites. For the Austrian contribution, Jermolaewa draws an arc from her personal experience of migration as a political refugee to signifiers of nonviolent resistance against authoritarian regimes. In Rehearsal for Swan Lake, made in collaboration with Ukrainian choreographer Oksana Serheieva, Jermolaewa references a memory from her teenage years. In times of political unrest, for instance the death of a head of state, Soviet television replaced their regularly scheduled broadcast with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake in a loop for days. In Soviet cultural memory, the famous ballet became code for a change in power. Jermolaewa and Serheieva turn the ballet from a tool of censorship and distraction into a form of political protest — here, the dancers rehearse for regime change in Russia.<br/><br/>Anna Jermolaewa / Pavilion of Austria at Venice Art Biennale 2024. Venice (Italy), April 19, 2024.
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