Strangers Lounge is a salon type exhibition devised for historic 60th Biennale Di Venezia. Inspired by Albert Camus's classic The Outsider, this intriguing exhibition will feature works of 100 international artists from Spain, Great Britain, Croatia, Italy, Republic of Ireland, China, Germany, Slovenia, France, Japan, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Israel, USA and Philippines. Surveyed and directed by Jeffro Dziac, young Brazilian curator resident in Sao Paolo, Outsiders Lounge is a late Venetian meeting point for ultra modern existentialists and surrealists to exhibit, debate, perform and observe dramas of current life.

With uniform wall works set at A4 size, like a set of imaginary cards, this exhibition will highlight the absurd and uncanny times we currently inhabit, whilst reflecting on the themes of identity, nostalgia, artifice and strangeness in many different forms and media.

Salon des Étrangers consists of two parts, two dimensions, two ports of entry; one material and the other ephemeral, coexisting in the same space. It is a contextual form quest for meaning, analogue/static vs digital/moving and it is fraught with numerous inconsistencies and paradoxes. Absurdity can be vivid awareness albeit unsettling, like the doubt that accompanies faith. It can unveil profound questions and deep insights and curiously a greater appreciation of the moment and of life itself. Like nothingness, void or despair the mere idea of the outsiders lounge can mean different things to different people. In this case it is the artists that will decide on the outcome of our futures. Objectively or subjectively the universal human quest is to achieve continuity despite its finiteness. Activities like sport, religion or art making enable us to imagine we will live forever, albeit symbolically, thereby vanquishing death.

This exhibition could simply be construed as our collective response to DEATH.