Venice Biennale overwhelmed by global crises, artists' voices diminished

The 2024 Venice Biennale is described as a hypertrophic funfair where artists have been pushed to the margins, their voices weakened by the deafening noise of ongoing and emerging wars, violent internal repressions in increasingly more governments, including those once considered democracies. The critic argues that artists appear smaller, more insignificant, and sometimes awkwardly infantile in their self-centeredness, citing examples of a performer thrashing inside a bell and an artist forcing audiences to change dolls' diapers to address serious topics like same-sex parenting. The Biennale, once a platform for powerful artistic statements, now struggles to assert itself amid global turmoil.