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A participant in the Okayama Artist Summit 2016, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is participating in the 58th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale on view through 24th November.

Gonzalez-Foerster was born in France in 1965. For the previous Okayama Art Summit, she worked closely with the city’s independent cinema to develop a retrospective programme of her films.

She has two installations currently on view at the Venice Biennale, titled “May You Live In Interesting Times.” “Endodrome” consists of a virtual reality installation and a projection set in a built environment specifically conceived by the artist for the occasion. The artist takes inspiration from the world of speculative fiction as a tool for imagining different futures, pasts and presents. In her first work using VR, Gonzalez-Foerster invites viewers into trance-like encounters with three-dimensional images and sounds that conjure novel forms of life or extra-terrestrial environments.

“Cosmorama”, her other work on view at the Central Pavilion, is an imaginary Martian landscape conceived in collaboration with diorama artist Joianne Bittle. The work consists of a closed environment of red sand, shaped rocks and eroded steles that blend into a painted landscape created by Bittle. “Cosmorama” is inspired by science fiction, the utopia of a Martian escape and a dystopian future, themes that Gonzalez-Foerster has explored in previous works.