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Installation view of Carol Bove's sculptural arrangement "Parvati" (2017) in the exhibition "Women of Venice" at the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2017, in Venice, Italy, on May 13, 2017. The Geneva-born American artist's work raises issues of theatricality and autonomy. With her installations and sculptural arrangements, she conjures up discursive, yet veiled connections and, with a lightness of touch, explores the vocabulary of sculpture. For the Swiss Pavilion exhibition, Bove takes Giacometti’s figurative constellations as a starting point, tracing their relational forces. As a response to Alberto Giacometti’s historic absence from the Swiss Pavilion, she creates a new group of sculptures referring to the artist’s late figurative work. Curator Philipp Kaiser invited artists Carol Bove and Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler to show their work in the exhibition "Women of Venice" at the Pavilion of Switzerland at the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, running from May 13 to November 26, 2017. With the project Kaiser aims to explore Alberto Giacometti’s absence in the history of the Swiss Pavilion. (KEYSTONE/Gaetan Bally)