The British Council announced that Sonia Boyce has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2022.

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Sonia Boyce is known for her uniquely innovative and experimental approach to art-making and the use of performance and audio-visual elements. Since the 1990s, her practice has gradually become more improvisational and collaborative, inviting a broad audience to come together and speak, sing or move in relation to the past and the present. 

Emma Dexter, British Council Director Visual Arts, Commissioner of the British Pavilion, and Chair of the British Pavilion Selection Committee, said:

“The British Council is thrilled to announce that Sonia Boyce has been commissioned to represent the UK at the Biennale Arte 2021. We are eagerly anticipating her exhibition, where collaboration, improvisation, and dialogue will undoubtedly play a key role. Boyce’s work raises important questions about the nature of creativity, questioning who makes art, how ideas are formed, and the nature of authorship. At such a pivotal moment in the UK’s history, the Committee has chosen an artist whose work embodies inclusiveness, generosity, experimentation and the importance of working together”.

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