Much of the art in the Arsenale was political. And many countires were represented. Judy and I spent a great deal of time looking at and thinking about this work by Emily Prince. On a straightforward level, it consists of the following: a collection of photographs (presumably taken from newspapers) of American servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. These photos are organized by state or territory and placed in boxes in an elaborate filing system. Small sketches were then made together with name, location, and birth and death dates. She then came to Venice and installed the sketches on the very large wall roughly following a map of the US. The sketches are pinned to the wall. There are more than 3,300 in this show.
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