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Saudi Arabia in Venice: Why “A Necessary Fiction” Is About More Than Art

Inside a quiet Venetian abbey, Saudi Arabia is displaying maps filled with myths, trade routes and imagined worlds. Yet “A Necessary Fiction,” the Kingdom’s latest exhibition at the Venice Biennale, is about more than cartography. It reflects a country attempting to redraw its own image — from a state once defined abroad by oil and conservatism to one increasingly using culture, heritage and art to shape how it is understood globally.