Join us for an introduction to the work of artists Manon Awst and Dylan Huw, who will be representing Wales at this year’s Venice Biennale.
Manon Awst and Dylan Huw will represent Wales at the 61st Venice Biennale, opening in May. Their collaborative project, organised by Oriel Davies and Oriel Myrddin, proposes an architecture of entanglement, where material, linguistic, and ecological threads converge.
The project is partly informed by Awst’s recent Research Fellowship with the Henry Moore Institute, where she has been developing her long-term material research with peatlands. The collaboration between Awst and Huw invites connections across borders, informed by Wales’ celebrated history of site-specific collective practice and its oral poetic tradition.
An illustrated talk from the artists outlining the project’s origins and collaborative approach will be followed by a conversation with Steffan Jones-Hughes, the project’s curator and Director of Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown.
This event will be the first public opportunity to hear the artists discuss their plans for the forthcoming Venice Biennale, which is Wales’ first representation at the event since Sean Edwards in 2019.
Wales in Venice is commissioned and managed by Arts Council of Wales and Wales Arts International, with support from Welsh Government.
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