Biennale di Venezia
Anna Jermolaewa: Revolutions at the top
Successful contribution to the Austrian pavilion at the Biennale Arte: curator Gabriele Spindler brings together the sensual political art of Anna Jermolaewa in Venice.
These are very personal memories with which the Russian-Austrian dissident Anna Jermolaewa fits into the Biennale motto "Foreigners Everywhere". In the Austria Pavilion, the regime critic not only transforms the ballet "Swan Lake" into a thought-provoking call for political change, "we have created an overall arc of older and new works based on her escape story," says curator Gabriele Spindler.
There are old telephone boxes in the courtyard of the Hoffmann Pavilion. "They come from Traiskirchen. They are the same devices that provided Anna with the only contact with her family in the refugee camp in 1989. Now they stand here like a kind of ready-made, the scribbles on them bear witness to so many different fates," says Spindler. "Research For Sleeping Position" also tells the story of Jermolaewa's escape from the Soviet Union. Back then, she had to spend a few days on a bench at the Western Railway Station. 17 years later, she tried to find a suitable sleeping position on this very bench in the video.
The eye-catcher is her installation of colorful bouquets of flowers - roses, carnations, tulips ... they all symbolize revolutions in which people stood up with flowers in their hands. From the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974 to the Lotus Revolution in Egypt in 2011.
The original work "Ribs" is a new creation that also reveals Jermolaewa's subtle wit. "Western music was banned in the Soviet Union. But resourceful technicians copied records onto discarded X-ray images from hospitals," explains Spindler. They rest in light boxes, and hidden behind X-ray images of bones is the promising sound of freedom, which is played once a day.
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