Venice Diary Day 3: Offsite Highlights Include Fleshy Films and Vegetarian Videos
ARTnews’s “Venice Diary Day 3” highlights offsite works during the Venice Biennale, focusing on Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan’s animated video Screen Melancholy (2026) at the offsite Taiwan Pavilion in Venice. The article describes the CGI figure’s dialogue with ChatGPT and the pavilion’s phone-charging benches, noting the event is billed as a collateral exhibition organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum after China pressured the Biennale Foundation in 2003. It cites ArtReview calling Li the “poet of enshittification” and includes a comment from James McAnally of CounterPublic about the work’s humor-versus-creepiness divide. The piece also notes curator Raphael Fonseca is bringing Li to St. Louis for CounterPublic in September, and that the artist is included in the current Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.
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