Wednesday, August 14, 2013
The Bahamas
- The Bahamas Pavilion was one of my favorites at the biennale this year. Called "Polar Eclipse" featured young artist Tavares Strachan from the Bahamas. Travares is world renown for his work "The distance between what we have and what we want" where Tavares traveled to the arctic recovered a muliti-ton block of ice and transported it back to his primary school he attended in the Bahamas, placing the giant ice cube in a specially made refrigerator powered by the hot Bahama sun.
- At this exhibition Tavares Strachan went with one of his most reconcilable themes "To Belong". As you enter the Pavilion you are surrounded by a dark room lit only by the firework like display of neon lights displayed across the tree black walls each giving a different state for which one can belong, i.e. "I, you and we Belong Here" immediately giving you a clear theme by which to easily judge the rest of his artwork within the pavilion. Absolutely enticing!
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