This volume celebrates the exciting new work of Allora & Calzadilla, who represented the United States in the 54th Venice Biennale. This book documents Allora & Calzadilla’s exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion, including a plates section displaying images of the works as they were installed in Venice. Essays by exhibition curator, U.S. Commissioner Lisa Freiman, and art historians Carrie Lambert-Beatty and Yates McKee explore the themes addressed in Gloria and place Allora & Calzadilla’s works within a larger art historical and social context. Jennifer Allora is a director, known for A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear (2008).Guillermo Calzadilla was born in 1971 in Havana, Cuba.