Jonathas de Andrade tackles the body politic in a playful yet biting pavilion for Brazil in Venice:
The artist sees his work as a catalyst for social change in his home country.Jonathas de Andrade at the entrance to the Brazilian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. Photo: Naomi Rea.
In the first room, a rotten finger repeatedly presses the wrong button on an electronic ballot box, taken from an expression referring to someone who contaminates whatever he or she touches, and an unavoidable evocation of the widespread political corruption in Brazil under its right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Installation view of Jonathas de Andrade, “Com o coração saindo pela boca/With the heart coming out of the mouth,” at the 2022 Brazilian Pavilion in Venice. Courtesy of Ding Musa/Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.
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