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SupaVenezia
SupaVenezia
A Plus A Gallery
Venice, Italy
31.08 - 25.09.22

Featured artists: AGOSTINO, Moozhan Ahmadzadegan, Francesca Anfossi, Taylor Carruthers, Nina Ceranic, Giorgia Agnese Cereda, Guendalina Cerruti, CHiNGLiSH WANG, Kate Davis and David Moore, Hannah Doucet, Saule Dyussenbina, Julia Frank, Zuza Golinska, Phillipa Horan, Steph Huang, Melanie Jackson, Hetty Laycock, Jin Joo Lee, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Cosima Montavoci, Mila Morelli, Flore Mycek, Laura O’Neill, Iryna Ozarynska, Minjoon Park, Cullinan Richards, Filippo Rizzonelli, Henrique Schmeil, Ioana Maria Sisea, Francesco Snote, Saule Suleimenova, Sunset Yogurt, Patricio Tejedo, Jake Tilson, Fabiano Vicentini, Klaus Weber, Maria Xilo, Camille Yvert.

‘SupaVenezia’ was presented in 2022 at A Plus A Gallery in Venice in collaboration with the School for Curatorial Studies Venice and Sarah Staton. Developed together with students from the international curatorial programme, the exhibition brought together a group of artists whose works engaged with ideas of circulation, exchange and the cultural economy of Venice.

As everything merges into shopping, art negotiates its fate of proximity to the commodity, to conditions of objecthood and reproducibility; SupaStore reveals them to be irrepressible for both. Using languages of commerce with wit and irony, Staton celebrates artists’ ability to reinvent the ordinary. SupaStore invites audiences to rethink value, ownership, and display - an art that activates space, multiplies, and delights in its many guises.

Installed within a shop-like display environment characteristic of SupaStore, the exhibition included sculptures, editions, publications and small objects arranged across shelves and display structures reminiscent of markets and souvenir shops.

By situating SupaStore within Venice, a city historically shaped by trade and tourism, the project examined the relationship between artistic production and the economies that surround cultural heritage. At the same time it functioned as an educational platform through which students participated directly in the curatorial development of the exhibition.

Curatorial team: Bates Assilbekova (KZ), Amelie Bès (CH), Taylor Carruthers (CA), Thais Domingues (BR), Lauren Fuller (US), Lianna Gonzalez (US), Ayman Kassem (LB), Jin Joo Lee (KR), Laura Matterazzo (IT), Sharon Jane Mee (AU), Lucrezia Nardi (IT), Valeriya Plekhotko (UK), Ghazala Raees (PK), Natasha Roberts (US), Patricio Tejedo (MX), Jeffrey Wang (TW).