2 May 2022

Photography / Picture Gallery

Snap Happy: Elephant’s Biennale Photo Diary

From real bricks to fake flowers, stone owls to octopus women, here’s what caught Louise Benson’s eye in Venice…

Simone Leigh’s Brick House in the opening gallery of the Venice Arsenale. Photo by Louise Benson — Simone Leigh’s Brick House in the opening gallery of the Venice Arsenale

Detail of work by Gabriel Chaile

Works by Solange Pessoa

A visitor looks at works by Safia Farhat

Ali Cherri, Titans (2022) — Ali Cherri, Titans, 2022

Aage Gaup, Sculpture I & II (1979) — A visitor walks past Aage Gaup, Sculpture I & II, 1979

Tetsumi Kudo, Flowers, 1967â€“1968 — Tetsumi Kudo, Flowers, 1967–1968

A visitor in front of Firelei Baez, Something Ephemeral and Beautifully Whole, When Seen from the Edge of One’s Vision, Too Full When Taken Head On, 2022

Emma Talbot, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 2021

A visitor in front of Elias Sime, Red Leaves, 2021

Works by Myrlande Constant

Delcy Morelos, Earthly Paradise, 2022

A visitor in front of Ficre Ghebreyesys, City With a River Running Through, 2011

Detail of Niki de Saint Phalle, Gwendolyn, 1966–1990

A visitor looks at a work by Belkis Ayón