Author: Ivan Dal Cin
In 2000, I created a series of photographs titled "Aperto 2000", which captured the facades of the closed pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Szeemann's new direction was centered on connecting "everything with everything", dismantling ideologies and embracing transnationality. Today, with globalization itself in crisis, editions of the Venice Art Biennale are increasingly ideologized, and artists seem to merely serve as evidence for curatorial statements. "Aperto 24" is a speculative hack that utilizes part of the communication and imagery of the 2024 Biennale, altering its content and proposing a new platform for artistic research. At the heart of this proposal is the dismantling of the "omniscient curator", in favor of a fragmented landscape composed solely of national participations: the good old pavilions and the new ones, changing and redistributing at each edition as in a Boetti's map.
