Chimera
From each of the 79 exhibiting artists works are on display in both the Arsenale and the Giardini. Particularly noticeable this year are the numerous video and sound works. One that sticks in your memory is Haris Epaminonda’s “Chimera” (2019). In her 30-minute film, she combines found-footage shots with a soundscape by Kelly Jayne Jones and creates meditative images of abandoned places and landscapes, which hover somewhere between memory and conceptual construction. The work deservedly earned Epaminonda the Silver Lion.
