Inside Jeffrey Gibson’s US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Where Color Brings History to Life

Jeffrey Gibson’s United States Pavilion opened at the Venice Biennale with a superabundance of color and signs of tradition that bring history into a vital present purview. The first Native American artist to represent the US with a solo show at the Biennale made 11 paintings, nine sculptures, eight flags, two murals, and one video installation for the Pavilion, which bears the title the space in which to place me.
Gibson—a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Che