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Fred Wilson: Speak of Me As I AM

Author: Kathleen Goncharov
Category: Catalogue
Publisher: MIT
Year: 2003
Subject: Painting, Venice Biennale 50th, American Pavilion
Description: United States Pavilion 50th Venice Biennale 2003.

Wilson`s Installation is timely given the increasing ethnic diversity of the west, growing xenophobia, and stricter immigration policies in both the U.S. and Europe. Making the case that western culture is the result of historical multiculturalism. Wilson believes that Venice, as a vital trading city like New York, was a place where various races put aside their differences for the economic benefit for all.
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