La Biennale Di Venezia

56th International Art Exhibition 

All the Worlds Futures 

"The world today exhibits deep diversions and wounds pronounced inequalities and uncertainties as to the future". The 56th International Art Exhibition observes the relationship between art and the development of the human, social and political world. An art exhibition where many can question, or at least listen to artists.136 Artists participating in this exhibition from 53 countries. 

Canada

Canadassimo: BGL art collective (Jasmine Bilodeau, Sèbastien Giguère, Nicolas Lavandière).

BLG's practice often employs humour and extravagance to explore the world of objects while simultaneously raising social and political issues related to nature, contemporary lifestyles, economics and the art system. Involving sculptures and performances, the BGL include huge installations which put the viewers into unexpected situations, prompting them to question their own behaviour and revise their view of reality. 

Cantassimo creates a strange path through the Canadian pavilion, beneath the scaffolding that partly obscures the building, creating the impression that the building is under construction, you enter a dèpanneur - a neighbourhood convenience store selling tinned goods and other household essentials. Then you enter a 'loft-like' living space which looks an though a recycling enthusiast place. Next comes BGL's "the studio" a place crowded with loads of objects an cans covered in dribbling paint. Then viewers make their way onto the terrace with a view over the Giardini. 

Canadassimo is nearly constructed entirely out of recycled materials and objects exposing the excess of North American society as well as the tinkerer/junk collecting character who recycles everything. 

BGL works frequently invoke direct relationships to material while expressing an urgent need to reappropriate the natural and physical conditions of object and the environment by exploiting particular skills. tools and modes of production. Canadassimo seems to be proposing an alternative ecology that makes art central.