Arsenale highlights part 2

There were a number of works installed outside at the Arsenale, and one of the best was definitely Lara Favaretto's created swamp. I came across this work while I was walking through the gardens and at first I thought - how odd, there's this marshy, overgrown area in the gardens, you would think they would have done something about that - and then I found out it was a work! It was so beautiful and subtle (but full of mozzies!).

Lara Favaretto, Italy

Cildo Melreles set up a sequence of 6 colour rooms in almost the primary and secondary colours (one room was hot pink not red) with a screen in the corner of each. The screens alternatively displayed a corner of their room colour or a corner from their complimentary colour room. As you walked between rooms you could see colours from the rooms either side which created interesting optical effects. Being surrounded by a single colour also played with one's spatial perception.

Cildo Melreles, Brazil

Chu Yun's work is hard to capture in a photograph - it was a dark room full of electrical appliances all turned on, so it created a mini-universe from all of their lights. It was a very poetic work with a number of layers to it.

Chu Yun, China

Renata Lucas lifted sections of the floor throughout the Arsenale and installed bitumen with lines suggestive of carparking spaces or road lanes. Once again quite a subtle work but full of various readings. She also created part of a road in the Giardini

Renata Lucas, Brazil