International Curators Forum (ICF) and University of the Arts London (UAL) present Diaspora Pavilion, an exhibition to be held in Venice from May 13th until November 26th 2017 at the Palazzo Pisani S. Marina during the 57th Venice Biennale.

The Diaspora Pavilion is conceived as a challenge to the prevalence of national pavilions within the structure of an international biennale and takes its form from the coming-together of nineteen artists whose practices in many ways expand, complicate and even destabilise diaspora as term, whilst highlighting the continued relevance that diaspora as a lived reality holds today.

Hew Locke's exhibition entitled, The Wine Dark Sea, is a presentation of his acclaimed sculptures of boats. Locke has created an entirely new series of vessels, of varied scale and brilliant color, which will be suspended from the gallery ceiling at eye level. His boats are both contemporary and historical - clippers and container ships, battleships, ghost ships, and lifeboats - all together encompassing a spectacular sculptural environment.