How Do Venetian Artists Contend with Mass-Tourism?

Drawing its title from a 2005 series of neon works by Palermo-based collective Claire Fontaine – appropriated, in turn, from an activist group that creatively opposed racism and xenophobia in early-2000s Turin – ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ will address themes of colonization, migration and diaspora. The titular phrase – stranieri ovunque in Italian – will no doubt sound ironically familiar to local Venetians. Not only are tourists, quite literally, everywhere in Venice, but the unceasing exodus of residents has transformed a city once-famous for its neighborly conviviality into one of transitory passers-by.