Werewere Liking, Central Pavilion of the Giardini, Venice Biennale 2026

Werewere Liking’s works, on display in the central pavilion of the Giardini at the 2026 Art Biennale, present women within a poetic, dreamlike or very real world.

A world in which women are the ones who hold the power, the creative force.

Werewere Liking In both her paintings and her sculptures, the eyes play a central role.

They observe and, in turn, capture the viewer’s gaze.

Her sculptures are painted in bright, high-contrast colours, whilst her paintings often feature softer, more harmonious tones, particularly when they depict pregnancy, the moon, the sun or nature.

The paintings with more contrasting tones, dominated by mauve, blue and brown, depict the conflicts between the sexes, moments of struggle where the woman resists aggression or the desire to dominate her.

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