Most exhibitions are finished by the opening. And once they open, they stay unchanged for the duration of the show.
By the Means at Hand at the Croatian Pavilion in Venice was not one of those shows. It was a performative system in continuous flux, a shape-shifting living thing, which at any given moment could only be caught in fragments.
Between mid-April and end of November, I changed the display many times to show over 200 works by artist friends and the same number of my own works made on site over the course of those 8 months.
Here are some of the incarnations of the display across the show’s timeline.
Photos #2,3,6 by Hugo Glendinning, the rest are mine.