The New York Times
The 10 Best Things We Saw at the Venice Biennale
Text by Kat Herriman Photographs and Video by Jason Schmidt
May 16, 2017
You cannot enter Cinthia Marcelle’s “Hunting Ground” without looking at your feet. The artist subverted the symmetry of the Brazilian pavilion by installing a slanted grate that stretches from the entrance to the building’s back wall. “I wanted to create instability,” Marcelle says. “If you think of the context of Brazil, we don’t accept what is happening now. I am representing Brazil so I felt I needed to address the instability and propose a new way to circulate around this building.”