Venice Biennale 2026: Saudi Arabia’s Dana Awartani documents destroyed heritage sites

At the Saudi Pavilion, curated by Antonia Carver, Dana Awartani has constructed a room-filling installation that marries craft tradition with conceptual force. In the Arsenale, she is showing a horizontal array of thousands of clay bricks placed in decorative motifs drawn from the artist’s long-term study of damaged or destroyed ancient heritage sites and monuments […]