TY - JOUR T1 - Exhibition: Extramural — new walls in Venice: The Shrinking Universe JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 450 LP - 451 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X705341 VL - 69 IS - 686 AU - Will Norman Y1 - 2019/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/686/450.abstract N2 - Eva Rothschild. Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale11 May 2019 to 24 November 2019Somebody has put a wall in the way. It’s very beautiful, polished cement with mismatching geometric red patterns, but it’s stopping me in my path, and I have to go around it. The artist intended it so. I’ve been wandering for a couple of hours around the artfully curated show for May You Live in Interesting Times and maybe a wall at this point is justified.The artist is Eva Rothschild and she is as equally interested in how you see her art as the art itself. The Irish artist is not just putting a pretty painting on the wall and leaving it to us, she is putting herself in our shoes and working out how we interact with her sculptures, encouraging us to behave in certain ways, hence the wall. You are forced to enter and consider the work; she doesn’t want ‘snow-blind’ Biennalists glaring from the entrance then swooping past. She describes her works almost as family members and, for ‘the Shrinking Universe’, her show for the Irish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, … ER -