Shrine for Girls, Venice
Solo Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Presented by Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects
Chiesa di San Gallo, Venice, Italy
May 6 – November 22, 2015
Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Installation View
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : beverly joel
Although the United Nations passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, women and girls around the world continue to be among the most vulnerable members of our global society. Often facing violence, repression, and enforced ignorance, this young female populace is subjected to a horrifying existence on earth.
Inside the exquisite sixteenth-century Church of San Gallo, where Bill Viola showed in 2007, New York-based conceptual artist Patricia Cronin has created a shrine in their honor. For over two decades, critically acclaimed artist Patricia Cronin has created compelling works, many with social justice themes focusing on gender. Here, she has gathered hundreds of girls’ clothes from around the world and arranged them on three stone altars to act as relics of these young martyrs. Commemorating their spirit, this dramatic site-specific installation is a meditation on the incalculable loss of unrealized potential and hopelessness in the face of unfathomable human cruelty; juxtaposed against the obligation and mission we have as citizens of the world to combat this prejudice
Installation Views
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Installation View
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Installation View
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Installation View
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Hijabs, 2015
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Hijabs and Photograph, 2015
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Saris, 2015
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Saris and Photograph, 2015
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Installation View
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Aprons, 2015
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Aprons and Photograph, 2015
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
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Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice
Installation View
La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
Photo : Mark Blower
Press
"Linda Nochlin"
The Brooklyn Rail | July 13 2015
"Venice Biennale: Tabish’s Top 5 Collateral and Other events"
FAD Magazine | July 1 2015
"Patricia Cronin: 'A silent protest can be quite powerful' "
studio international | June 23 2015
"Mickalene Thomas’s Adventures in Italy"
The New York Times Style Review | June 17 2015
"American artist Patricia Cronin on creating 'Shrine for Girls'"
The Indian Express | June 14 2015
"Patricia Cronin's 'Shrine for Girls' Venice Biennale"
Litro | June 9 2015
"L'Altra Venezia In Tre Sedi Fuori Dal Coro"
Exibart | June 7 2015
"Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice"
Aesthetica | May 27 2015
"IFashion APP"
Modern Weekly | May 25 2015
"From Grief to Action: Patricia Cronin on Her 'Shrine for Girls'"
Hyperallergic | May 23 2015
"More Marx than Dante"
Spectator | May 16 2015
"Violence Against Girls and Women Remembered at Venice Biennale"
Artcentron | May 15 2015
"Venice Biennial 2015 Review"
The Triad | May 14 2015
"Venice Biennale: Gas Masks, Marx, and Cigarettes in the Wrong Places"
CNN | May 13 2015
"Venice Highlights 2015: Pavilions and Collateral Events"
Art In America | May 11 2015
"Die Kunstler GebenSichPolitisch"
NZZ
am Sonntag | May 10 2015
"Venice Biennale Expands Its Scope"
The International New York Times | May 8 2015
"A Shrine for Girls, Installation by Patricia Cronin"
Velvet Park | May 7 2015
"Venice Biennale Satellite Exhibitions: Following the Political Trail"
Artlyst | May 7 2015
"Your Concise Guide to the 2015 Venice Biennale"
Hyperallergic | May 5 2015
"Patricia Cronin Remembers the Repressed with Shrine for Girls"
Designboom | May 4 2015
"Beyond the Biennale: 21 Top Shows to See Around Venice"
Artsy | May 3 2015
"Venice Biennale Guide 2015"
The Art Newspaper | May 1 2015
"GliArtivisti"
Marie Claire Italia | May 2015
"ARR shrines at Venice Biennale"
American Acedemy In Rome Magazine | Spring 2015