Biennale text

The Lebanese Pavilion has invited Mounira Al Solh (Beirut, 1978) to create a bridge between myth and reality within its walls at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, from 20 April to 24 November 2024. Her extensive multimedia installation A Dance with her Myth, composed of 41 pieces—drawings, paintings, sculptures, embroideries, and video—are spread across the 180 square meters occupied by the Pavilion at the Arsenale. By revisiting the myth of the rapt of Europa, the artist offers a perspective on the aspirations and challenges faced by women today. On canvas, paper and screen, her creative process combines allegorical narrative with a documentary approach, appropriation with diversion, and gives realistic, poetic, and very contemporary representations.