{"id":3607,"date":"2026-10-21T21:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:58:22","slug":"sunday-scraps-126-venice-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/sunday-scraps-126-venice-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #126 (Venice edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7756-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7756-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7756-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7756-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7756-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7756-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7756-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just came back from a few days in Venice for the art biennale so wanted to share some of my favourite works as it&#8217;s still on till November 22nd. Here they are, in order of how much I loved them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inbetweenartfilm.com\/en\/canicula\/\">Canicula<\/a>, a series of 8 films at the Complesso dell&#8217;Ospedaletto (an old care home)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazioneprada.org\/project\/helter-skelter-arthur-jafa-richard-prince\/?lang=en\">Helter Skelter show<\/a> at Prada Foundation which features <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/441146161\">Love is the Message The Message is Death<\/a> by Arthur Jafa and his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_(enslaved_man)\">scuptural representation<\/a> of the famous 1933 photograph of the back of an enslaved man amongst many other works. That image was recently removed from use in US National Parks by the current administration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artreview.com\/oriol-vilanova-on-representing-spain-at-the-61st-venice-biennale\/\">Oriol Vilanova<\/a>&#8216;s postcard &#8216;flea market&#8217; in the Spanish pavillion<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/art\/2026\/sawangwongse-yawnghwe\">Sawangwongse Yawnghwe<\/a>&#8216;s maps of complexity and past\u00a0 historical events<\/li>\n<li>The double bill of <a href=\"https:\/\/lsimpsonstudio.com\/paintings\/special-characters-2019present\">Lorna Simpson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ocula.com\/magazine\/conversations\/brazilian-artist-paulo-nazareth-venice-veneza\/\">Paulo Nazareth<\/a> at Punta Della Dogana (Pineault Collection)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0PlIA1YGmp4?si=ygKYtfVdf_1uBt_n\">Michael Armitage<\/a> show in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinaultcollection.com\/palazzograssi\/en\/michael-armitage-promise-change\">Palazzo Grassi\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/art\/2026\/nordic-countries-finland-norway-sweden\">floppy and scaffolded bodies<\/a> of Tori Wr\u00e5nes\u00a0 and Benjamin Orlow in the Nordic pavillion<\/li>\n<li>The nihilistic dico by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaxN4_BCrYa\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;xtok=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&amp;srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Andreas Angelidaki<\/a>s for the Greek pavillion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I recently had to pay \u00a379 to a DRM company, I&#8217;m going to be a bit more careful about art imagery so you&#8217;ll just have to click through to see what I&#8217;m talking about. You should go, it&#8217;s beautiful there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from a few days in Venice for the art biennale so wanted to share some of my favourite works as it&#8217;s still on till November 22nd. Here they are, in order of how much I loved them: Canicula, a series of 8 films at the Complesso dell&#8217;Ospedaletto (an old care home)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/sunday-scraps-126-venice-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #126 (Venice edition)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Wb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}