A review of Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots and GaMec: Thinking Like a Mountain. 2024 Italy.
“Nestled in the midst of the Dolomites, in an autonomous community of Northern Italy, is art set in a dream? The Biennale Gherdëina is a precious event. The mere presence of fairy tale towns like Ortisei and Bergamo, set so precariously amid precipitous mountains, is a statement of humanity’s drive to escape and immerse itself in nature (if only to discover what it is to be alive).
2024 sees the ninth Biennale Gherdëina find guiding inspiration in the Ladin legend of the Fanes. The tale tells of a people cursed when they abandon their connection to their wild Marmot ancestors, eventually returning to live beneath the land until a portentous time of their re-emergence. “
