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Located on the tiny island of San Giorgio, Le Stanze della Fotografia hopes to become a landmark in Italy
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Located on the tiny island of San Giorgio, Le Stanze della Fotografia hopes to become a landmark in Italy
Christoph Büchel's controvesial Barca Nostra is towed into place in the Arsenale for the Venice Biennale. Photo by Luca Zanon Awakening/Getty Images. The sunken fishing ship upon which more than 1,000 African migrants died in 2015, and which was later controversially displayed at the Venice Biennale, will now be converted into a permanent memorial in Italy. The ship had been languishing in Venice since 2019, when Swiss-Icelandic artist Christoph Büchel turned it into an incendiary monument to the Mediterranean migration crisis as part of the Venice Biennale. Presented without context or l...