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Dispatch from the Venice Biennale: Glimmers of hope ‘beyond the banal and self-harming’

Light table live drawing. Image courtesy of the Ireland Pavilion - Polyphony (Video Still), 2016. Losing Myself, on axis. The Irish Entry to La Biennale di Venezia 2016. Image © Riccardo Tosetto. Losing Myself, projection from above. The Irish Entry to La Biennale di Venezia 2016. Image © Lez Barker ArtAV. The Drawing Machine. Losing Myself, The Irish Entry to La Biennale di Venezia 2016. Image © Riccardo Tosetto. Curators Yeoryia Manolopoulou and Níall McLaughlin, 2016. Image courtesy of the Ireland Pavilion. Co-curator Jean Pierre Crousse explaining the Plan Selva schools. Peru Pavilion, 2016. Photo by Laura Amaya. Design your own school, part of 'Our Amazon Frontline', the Peru Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo by Laura Amaya. Installing the Peru Pavilion at the Arsenale Sale d'Armi. Image courtesy of Barclay&Crousse.

Losing Myself, projection from above. The Irish Entry to La Biennale di Venezia 2016. Image © Lez Barker ArtAV.

Losing Myself, projection from above. The Irish Entry to La Biennale di Venezia 2016. Image © Lez Barker ArtAV.