Shadow of Dream Cast upon Giardini

Venice Biennale – Ukrainian National Pavillion

Curators: Open Group (Yurii Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Stanislav Turina, Anton Varga).

Photographs: Italo Rondinella.

At noon on May 9, the world’s largest cargo aircraft, Antonov An-225 Mriya, flies over Venice and casts a fleeting shadow over the Giardini della Biennale. The aircraft carries information about all Ukrainian artists, a digital directory that consists of living dreams, present or past, explicit or obscure, verbalised or even unconscious.

The storytellers in the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale narrate a myth about this historical flight.