Venice Biennale as World Map. Cartographies, Geological Interventions, Landmark Layers

The Venice Biennale, with its national pavilions, is like a map of the world but also like a geography handbook. Not only is the history of this international art exhibition marked by contrasting geopolitical and creative forces, but also by landscape transformations taking place in the building of its structures and the gradual expansion of this periodical exposition throughout the city. If we consider the Biennale as a whole, as a sort of living, complex organism, we will see that it is subjected to a process of uninterrupted creation and destruction. Its nature has always been ephemeral.