Nauru joins the Venice Biennale for the first time in 2026. Its first National Pavilion at the 61st Biennale Arte titles AIM Inundated: Imagining Life After Land, and is curated by Khaled Ramadan, with the associate curators Camilla Boemio and Stefano Cagol.
Iv Toshain creates a new site-specific work called “Erewhon” – a cascade of chains that echoes hierarchy, control, and exclusion. Nineteenth-century rusty Victorian barbs, iron-shaped thorns, glossy aluminum, and sharp plastic form a vexillological relic. The artwork overlaps pre-industrial manufactures and mass-produced elements, blending colours from various world emblems.