Itamar Gov is one of the contributors to the Croatian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Vlatka Horvat’s project for the Croatian Pavilion, By the Means at Hand, curated by Antonia Majaca, exists as an accumulative exhibition of artworks by a wide-ranging group of international artists living “as foreigners,” reflecting on questions and urgencies of the diasporic experience. The exhibition is open to the public between April 20 – November 24, 2024.  

Itamar Gov is taking part with a piece from his work Kindly Ghosts (Family Photographs), which is an ongoing series based on family photographs that have been passed down through generations and which Gov has meticulously collected and preserved. The original photographs depict relatives and ancestors who have passed away long ago, individuals who are slowly becoming impossible to recognise or to identify, as any relatives who personally knew them passed away as well. The series offers a visual translation of the perpetual state of the individuals depicted in the photographs - following intergenerational migration and displacement, the context in which they led their lives alongside their languages, habits and collective rituals have become inaccessible, leaving their fading shadows as the only intelligible trace of their existence.  

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Image: Itamar Gov, Kindly Ghosts (A Family Photograph), 2024