Venice – Art Everywhere
The piece traveled the world spreading the message, “Your country doesn’t exist” in different languages and through various visual modes, including billboards, TV advertisements, postage stamps and wall-drawings. In this new iteration in Venice, the statement is used in a neon sign, Il Tuo Paese Non Esiste (2011), on the façade of the Pavilion. It was also incorporated into a musical arrangement for mezzo soprano, guitar and trumpet commissioned from the Icelandic composer Karólína Eiríksdóttir, and performed on a gondola in the canals of Venice. The video displayed in the pavilion documents the performance in dialogue with different aspects of the city and its omnipresent touristic reality, while the audio recording of the song is broadcast in public space.