“With a burning intimacy - it is said in the motivation - it captures the vulnerability of young men from the agrarian north of Nigeria, who emigrated to Lagos and ended up aboard illegal motorbike taxis.
Her feminist lens is extraordinarily sensitive and intimate, capturing the subcultural experience of motorcyclists and their economic precariousness."
Added to these awards are those already known for some time which led to the awarding of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Anna Maria Maiolino, Italian by birth but active in South America for over seventy years , especially in Brazil and Venezuela, and to the Turkish feminist activist artist Nil Yalter, Parisian by adoption. To complement the various awards, there are also three special mentions.
The first attributed to the Palestinian born in 1936, Samia Halaby, the second to the Argentinian La Chola Poblete (both on stage with works that address issues related to the queer universe) and the third to the Republic of Kosovo for its project, its commitment to feminism and the fight against inequalities in the world of employment. In short, "Foreigners Everywhere" is also in the list of winners.