Venice Biennale

I learnt about the Venice Biennale in high school, so in a weird way it was on my bucket list to go! I couldn't have chosen a worse day to go, weather wise. The weather man lied, it was not sunny! It was a day that was so foggy, that by the afternoon I swear a Death Eater was going to swoop out from the fog and swallow me whole. So cold! The exhibitions were interesting, kooky, confronting and sometimes so horrific I had to walk out. Here's a peak.

A quick snap from the German Pavillion which scared me too much to stay inside. It was basically set up like a church but felt really satanic inside and I'm too much of a pansy to stay around long enough to figure out the point of it. However, this was no where near as terrifying as the Swiss pavilion which I found similar to that of a maze of hell; I got lost inside and could not figure out how to escape. However I entirely appreciated the artist's point of view and feel like we should be confronted with such imagery on a more regular basis. I've been too scared to explore his website properly for fear of seeing the same imagery again, but if you're interested: look here. It was just basically about our obsession with popular culture when there is the most horrific things happening to humanity elsewhere.

The Venice Pavilion, my favourite...suitably exploring concepts of water.

 The USA pavilion; where a man running on a treadmill every hour would rotate the tank.

France Tomorrow

Off to Bordeaux tomorrow and that's it for my planned summer travelling. I think it will have an excellent end  - Paris! Yup, Paris twice in 6 months, I'm a lucky girl! I'm in Bologna at the moment and can I tell you that I'm melting. Yup. Melting. Now some of you in Australia might think that 38-40 degrees isn't THAT hot. Well it is! When there is no beach, public pool, lagoon or puddle near by, no ceiling fans or air-con, no sea breeze or night time southerly that blows away the hot air. NADA. There is no release, even when the sun goes down - the temperature is still in the 30. I have no idea how when I arrived in this city in January it was snowing?! Out of absolute desperation the other night I got up at 1 30 am, got an ice-block and stole all my housemates fans and put them in my room. Yeah, that's about as advanced as Bologna gets for cooling.* I can't handle it any longer, thank gosh I'm leaving tomorrow..

Anyway, here are some photos from Daniel & I's day trip to Venice. Daniel was in charge of the camera, so naturally there about 5 photos to choose from.

* Some stores like Zara have air-con, but most are shut for the summer holidays, so that's convenient.

Venezia Carnivale