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The exhibition’s coveted Golden Lion Awards went to trailblazers Simone Leigh and Sonia Boyce, who became the first Black women to receive the accolade.
SONIA BOYCE OBE RA has won the prestigious Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at La Biennale di Venezia 2022 for her exhibition ‘Feeling Her Way’.
It’s the most momentous biennale in living memory. I have never seen anything like it. This has nothing to do with the war, of which more later, though the Russian pavilion is closed and the borscht-colored super-yachts all duly banished. Nor is it to do with the year-long delay caused by a pandemic that has no visible reflection whatsoever in the many thousands of works of art; nor is it even to do with the art itself.
Rather, it is an epochal shift in attitudes. For the very first time, there are many more women than men, everywhere from the Giardini