Chile will participate in the 61st Venice Art Biennale with the exhibition "Inter-Reality" by artist Norton Maza, curated by Marisa Cachiolo and Dermis León, and managed by Claudia Pertuzé. The monumental installation, on view from May 9 to November 22, 2026 at the Sala dell'Isolotto in the Arsenale complex, contrasts an exterior referencing geopolitics, landscape, and ecology with an interior of precarious dioramas blending classical European painting and contemporary issues like fake news, migration, and environmental devastation. The work includes a soundscape of helicopters, airplanes, ancestral chants, and nature sounds recorded in Chile.
The selection matters because it positions Chilean contemporary art within a global conversation, using the Venice Biennale's platform to raise questions about identity, politics, and ecology from a South American perspective. The restored Arsenale space, doubling its exhibition area, amplifies the project's ambition to connect the intimate with the political and the local with the global, reflecting broader Latin American historical layers and contemporary tensions.