India’s inaugural presence at Venice as a nation is titled “Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode“ and shows work by artist Gigi Scaria’s whose Elevator from the Subcontinent requires visitors to press a lift button and walk into a space in which a video screen moves down, giving the viewer the illusion that they are taking a trip upwards. The screen depicts images within an Indian metropolis and the participant ascends through different classes in society.
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