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Atoui exhibits at Venice Biennale2019.07.16

Atoui exhibits at Venice Biennale

Tarek Atoui: The Ground, Exhibition view at May You Live In Interesting Times, the 58th Venice Biennale,Venice,2019.
Courtesy of artist and Vitamin Archive.
Photographer:Wen Peng

Artist participating in Okayama Art Summit 2019, Tarek Atoui shows his work at the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Atoui was born in Lebanon in 1980. His work with sound and composition is strongly influenced and informed by performances, improvisation and human encounters.

At the exhibition of Venice Biennale, his contribution takes past performances and installations as a starting point for compositions on which sound becomes light, vibration, and electricity activating experimental instruments and performing itself. These compositions create particular listening spaces and situations that highlight the importance of listening and consider it as the first performative gesture when it comes to improvising and playing contemporary and new music.