Early summer in Venice, the city of canals, on Italy’s Northern Adriatic coast. Tourists are pouring in for the high season - American families and Californian student groups, German couples here to do art…
It’s a week before the 50th Venice Biennale - a cross between an expo and the Olympic Games of modern art.
In a 17th-century church just off Saint Mark’s Square, a group of New Zealanders gather for a last discussion about an exhibit that already has the art world talking…
At the New Zealand pavilion, they’ll be presenting an unusual Cold War story which takes as its central motif the Trekka – the only New Zealand mass-produced automobile.