In Venice, the Bienniale becomes the centre of the world.The Cavalli Franchetti Palace, this year’s Portuguese pavillion, is currently inhabited by the vampires created by Pedro Neves Marques. It is on this narrative installation, wandering backwards and forwards through it, that this ‘Book of Hours’, with its evocations and meditations, science fiction and poetic reflections, is based. Non-binary, Pedro speaks of ‘a future where gestation will be decoupled from gender, and the categories of womanhood and manhood made irrelevant’. He adds: ‘Ecology, gender, anthropology, the embodiment of technologies into cosmotechnics, health and sexuality are all words that have been used, and that I too have used, to think my work.’