Erwin Wurm discusses Dreamers at the Venice Biennale, exploring sculpture, absurdity, artistic freedom and the beauty of everyday life

What happens when the screen stops observing the world and starts monitoring it? In this new essay, Zahra Tavassoli Zea explores how contemporary cinema transformed the sky from a symbol of wonder into a space of surveillance, anxiety, and control.

Yto Barrada's practice weaves together border politics, erased histories, and gestures of tending — from rescuing a period cinema in Tangier to stewarding forgotten archives. Her work is a lifelong commitment to cultural resistance, ecological care, and artistic kinship.