WE ARE THRILLED to announce the acceptance of Phyllis Galembo into the 55th International Exhibition at the 2013 Venice Biennale, la Biennale di Venezia.
Considered the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world, there are few higher honors for an artist than to be selected by the director of the Venice Biennale to be included in the grand International Exhibition.
Included in the exhibition are eight large-scale color prints presenting figures from Galembo's Ghana series. In her recurring travels throughout Africa and its Diaspora over the past thirty years, Galembo has taken portraits of revelers during traditional rites, rituals, ceremonies, and festivals. Her profound portraits serve as documentation of these powerful societies, even as the societies and their rituals become a thing of the past.