This year’s Armenian pavilion at the Venice Biennale will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the massacre of more than one million Armenians by Ottoman Turks during the First World War. The exhibition, titled Armenity and held on San Lazzaro degli Armeni island (home to the Armenian Catholic Monastery), will feature works by artist Sarkis, and is curated by Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg, who has often worked with the artist. “It is very important for me to keep the production going, for culture but also to keep the dialogue open,” Sarkis says. “We are the link between two pavilions. We are the breath. Whoever thinks otherwise is free to think so, of course.”
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