“As artists we are in conversation either with our peers or our ancestors.” — Jessica Rankin

(Left to right) Jessica Rankin, Or Spirit Everywhere, 2023, Collection of the artist; Paul Pfeiffer, Incarnator (Pampanga), 2018, Courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer (Berlin/Madrid). Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection
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Close (Left to right) Jessica Rankin, Or Spirit Everywhere, 2023, Collection of the artist; Paul Pfeiffer, Incarnator (Pampanga), 2018, Courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer (Berlin/Madrid). Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 15:20

“As artists we are in conversation either with our peers or our ancestors.” — Jessica Rankin

Certainly, for a lot of artists in this exhibition, we have been around each other's lives for so long, not necessarily directly impacting the aesthetic of each other's work but impacting the questions, the enthusiasms, the paths of enquiry, expanding each other's worlds.

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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 17:12

"I have always worked with music and I think this show is really in a way like a score. It’s something that informed my aesthetics a lot, and my way of thinking." — Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, First Seal (R 6:1), 2020 Pinault Collection © Julie Mehretu Courtesy of the artist and BORCH Editions
Julie Mehretu, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, First Seal (R 6:1), 2020 Pinault Collection © Julie Mehretu Courtesy of the artist and BORCH Editions

When you are thinking about jazz and you are thinking about history, it’s never just inventing by itself, it’s about quoting. […] Artists have always been in dialogue. They are dealing and negotiating not just their contemporary time, but we are negotiating current ideas about aesthetics critically.

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Sat, 06/01/2024 - 12:16

"To be transparent is the most fragile state of mind, and it needs to be supported, it needs to be embraced." — Nairy Baghramian

Julie Mehretu​, TRANSpaintings (hand), 2023, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection
Julie Mehretu​, TRANSpaintings (hand), 2023, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

It’s a very collaborative work, it looks like a series, but each has its own individual voice. Julie Mehretu asked me if I could frame them, if I could give them a standing. So I came up with the idea of sculptural embracing. […] We all float somehow in Venice, on the sea and in the rooms.