Cathy Wilkes to represent Britain at 58th Venice Biennale
Cathy Wilkes, a Northern Irish artist whose sculptural installations sometimes confound as much as they delight, has been chosen as Britain’s artist for the world’s biggest contemporary arts exhibition.
The British Council announced on Monday that Wilkes, who is based in Glasgow, had been selected to fill the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. The event is seen as an Olympics for the visual arts and runs for six months every two years.
Wilkes makes works that are often intimate and autobiographical, sometimes using mannequins to create domestic scenes that are not immediately fathomable, and subject to interpretation.
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