Albania-born artist Anri Sala has been chosen to represent France at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, it was announced Jan 19. Currently based in Berlin, Sala studied video at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1996-98, and film direction at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing in 1998-2000. He is best known for his short film Intervista, revisiting the use of language and syntax under Albania’s Enver Hoxha regime (c 1943-85). Many of his subsequent films and videos have used structuralist situations to convey underlying political implications, while others investigate the dynamics between image, sound, time and constructed space. Sala has previously exhibited in Venice in the international exhibition in 2003 and 2001, and in the Albania Pavilion in 1999. He is scheduled to have a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris later this year.
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