{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sight & Sound","title":"Inside Taste — The Venice Biennale in Minor Keys","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1064,"description":"We often think of taste as instinct—something we're born with. A natural ability to walk into a room and immediately recognize what is good.But taste rarely develops that way.At the highest level, taste is trained. It is shaped through attention, challenged through exposure, and refined through repeated encounters with the unfamiliar.In this episode, we step inside the 2026 Venice Biennale and into the India Pavilion's exhibition, Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home. At the center of the conversation is Permanent Address, a monumental installation by artist Sumakshi Singh that reconstructs her family's former home entirely from embroidered thread.Using Singh's work as a lens, we explore how perception actually develops, why familiarity can be mistaken for discernment, and what a concept from neuroscience called predictive processing reveals about the way we look at art.How does taste form? And more importantly, can it be trained?We break down a practical three-part framework for developing a deeper eye, expanding your visual vocabulary, and moving beyond preference toward genuine discernment.Key Insights from this Episode:• Taste as Practice: Why taste is not a gift, but a discipline built through repeated encounters with serious work.• Predictive Processing: How the brain's tendency to favor the familiar can limit perception and why cognitive friction is often where growth begins.• Sumakshi Singh's Permanent Address: How a house re-constructed entirely from thread transforms memory, displacement, and care into a powerful visual language.• Three Movements to Train Taste: A practical framework built around comparison, return, and productive friction.References & Further Reading:Explore the Venice Biennale 2026Explore the India Pavilion: Geographies of Distance: Remembering HomeArtist Spotlight: Sumakshi SinghThe InvitationAesthetic intelligence develops through attention.The environments we move through, the objects we live with, and the works we choose to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IHx9jbuYojSMk1Z6UHwxQamwC4q1SagrdzwoKeMuWAo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80Mjhm/MGIzY2EwODk1OWZi/ZGQwMDI2NTQxYzVm/YjJlNi5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}