Venice Biennale

If it’s already this crowded on a day where passes are needed to enter, I can only imagine what tomorrow will be like.

The Egyptian pavilion is as powerful as anticipated. Ahmed Bassiony did get some great footage of the first few nights of Tahrir before losing his own life there, and it’s interspersed with fotoage of one of his final artworks, “Running in Place for 30 Days” (a backhanded dig at Egypt running in place for 30 years). Shady was a good friend of Bassiony and so it’s moving to see him here running the show in his friend’s memory.

I’ll be back for the official opening at 4 PM, when some Egyptian new government officials should be showing up as well.