Personne et les autres

he publication accompanying the Belgian Pavilion at the next Venice Biennale, Personne et les autres borrow its title from a lost play by André Frankin, a Belgian art critic affiliated with the Lettrist and Situationist Internationals. The exhibition takes the history of the Belgian Pavilion and the international context of the Biennale (both derived from the colonial exhibitions and world expositions) as its points of departure. The Belgian Pavilion itself was the first foreign Pavilion to be built in the Giardini in Venice, during the reign of King Leopold II. Meessen’s work and artistic research have consistently explored the history and afterlife of colonial modernity. Edited by the curators of the Pavilion, Katerina Gregos and Vincent Meessen, this book will feature all the artists invited to show work alongside Meessen’s: Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Sammy Baloji, James Beckett, Elisabetta Benassi, Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin, Tamar Guimarães & Kasper Akhøj, Maryam Jafri, and Adam Pendleton. Essays by Katerina Gregos, Raoul Vaneigem, Harry Garuba, and Pedro Monaville — Testi: Gregos Katerina, Meessen Vincent. pagg. 180; COL e BN; rileg. brossura. Editore: Mousse Publishing, Milano, 2015.