Open Call

Double Take

School for Curatorial Studies Venice

No Funding

Free / No Costs

Venice, Italy

Eligibility

free

Number of Participants

Artists: Paolo Cirio, Jesse Darling, Simon Denny, Kasia Fudakowski, Enej Gala, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Eva & Franco Mattes, Ahmet Öğüt, Barbara Prenka.

Deadline

No deadline

Duration

April 15, 2024 - July 15, 2024

Meals

No meals

Public Programs

Exhibition

Languages

No languages listed

Program Description

Coinciding with the preview of the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia A plus A Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Double Take curated by the 2024 participants of School for Curatorial Studies Venice, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. The term double take refers to the action of looking at something a second time that had escaped notice at first glance, in order to discern something unusual or new that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. Double Take is an invitation to reconsider, to pay greater attention and care to the content hidden inside the works, to grasp their more implicit meanings. It's an indication to see beyond the immediacy of mere visual content, to take a critical stance, to move along the boundaries of an increasingly hyperconnected and dematerialized reality. Our attention span has decreased. Deep scrolling, ad bombardment, censorship and online subliminal propaganda are progressively changing the t