Venice Biennale titled 'Foreigners Everywhere' gives voice to outsiders

Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition that opened Saturday.

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00:00 Venice Biennale's 60th exhibition will gather together the work of more than 300 artists

00:08 from 88 countries, including first-timers from Benin, East Timor, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

00:15 The curator Adriano Pedrosa is the first to come from South America.

00:23 Despite being one of the world's biggest art events, the Biennale is still affected by

00:27 geopolitics and Russia won't have a pavilion.

00:30 It's been banned again as it continues its war on Ukraine for a second year.

00:36 Israel has a pavilion at the Biennale but for now it is closed.

00:40 Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside it earlier this week, shouting "Viva

00:45 Palestina" and handing out leaflets with the slogan "No death in Venice" to people at the

00:50 exhibition.

00:51 A sign on the pavilion said it would not open until a ceasefire is reached and the remaining

00:55 Israeli hostages in Gaza are freed.

00:57 [SWOOSH]