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UK Venice Biennale entry 'avoids Britishness'

It has taken the artist Mike Nelson 13 weeks, with a handful of helpers and a team of Moldovan builders, to transform the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale and make it completely unrecognisable, including giving the building several temporary domes on the roof.

Nelson‚ twice nominated for the Turner prize, never the winner, has finally been accorded that other mark of British artworld stardom: representing the UK at Venice, the largest, most established and still the most significant event in the international art calendar.

Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings.

The Venice Biennale – in which 89 countries, 12 more than in 2009, are officially competing for the Golden Lion for the best exhibition – is inescapably nationalist, and, as new countries join, including this year Iraq and Saudi Arabia, tends to reflect the tidal creep of geopolitics. Nelson, perhaps wisely, sidesteps the Olympian aspect of proceedings by having absolutely nothing to say about Britain or Britishness.

Instead, he has transformed the pavilion into a meticulously re-created version of a Turkish caravanserai, Istanbul's Büyük Valide Han. It was built in 1651 as a rest house for travellers, with storage and sleeping quarters built around a central courtyard. By the 21st century, the building had become a muddled but lively accretion of artisans' workshops, and in 2003 Nelson made an installation there for the Istanbul Biennale.

To re-create the space, Nelson spent 10 days sourcing materials, such as window-grilles and handmade doors, from Istanbul.

In many ways it is a characteristic work by Nelson – the visitor opens the door to the exhibition space and seems to slip into another world, with claustrophobic rooms apparently recently vacated by their former inhabitants. There is a chandelier-maker's workshop with a heap of glass baubles piled on a table; carpenters' tools lie on a workbench as if just put down; an improvised bed with rumpled blankets as if for a migrant worker; and there is a grubby little shower room with an extractor fan whirring away. Under the dome lie, says Nelson, the "debris of an old weaving loom".

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