The Milk of Dreams
nspired by Surrealist writer and artist Leonora Carrington’s tales, curator Cecilia Alemani conceived of the 59th Venice Biennale as a showcase of contemporary discourse about the “the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human” as well as our evolving relationships to technologies and the Earth. Featuring 213 artists from 58 countries—a majority of whom, for the first time in the Biennale’s 127-year history, are women and gender non-conforming artists—“Milk of Dreams” drew on the posthuman theories of Rosi Braidotti to critique the centrality of the white European male in the modern, Enlightenment-era conception of the human. In her transhistorical approach Alemani reached back to key 20th-century figures in five “cabinets,” which
