Now marking its eighth edition, Venice Immersive remains the greater Biennale family’s perpetual enfant terrible.
That status has little to do with industry esteem — unfurling on its own dedicated island, the new media spotlight has become a can’t miss rendezvous every bit as prestigious as the parent film festival — and everything to do with a protean medium that stays perpetually unfixed.
“[These artists] are creating a totally new language,” said Venice Immersive co-curator Michel Reilhac. “They’re making the invisible now visible, finding a new way to express emotions that isn’t as literal or as limited as in other artforms.”
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