VENICE: The National Pavilion of Egypt invites spectators at the 61st Venice Biennale to quietly experience “Silence Pavilion: Between the Tangible and the Intangible,” a solo exhibition by Egyptian artist Armen Agop.
“I believe silence is very important for us, in general,” Agop told Arab News. “Silence is not mute.”
With such a noisy world externally — and even internally — this space is meant to give you a chance to reset.
The pavilion begins with an invitation for visitors to enter “in silence” and to keep their cameras and phones tucked away.
You will be physically led through a passage of three sequential spaces; the exhibition seamlessly moves from the abstract to the physical to the contemplative.
