Oratorio di San Ludovico Dorsoduro, Venice
2017
May 8–July 29, 2017
Presented by Ikon Gallery, On Kawara’s installation One Million Years (Reading) took place over the first three months of the Biennale di Venezia in 2017. Volunteers gathered from Italy and beyond to read from One Million Years, two sets of volumes produced by the artist that list dates one million years into the future and one million years into the past; the first is dedicated to “all who have lived and died” and the second to “the last one.” The installation’s setting was significant: readings unfolded within Oratorio di San Ludovico, Dorsoduro, a historic ecclesiastic building dedicated to the spoken word.