Martin Boyce was selected to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2009 with an exhibition of work entitled No Reflections. Curated by Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) Martin Boyce devised a lyrical installation for seven inter-connected rooms of the second floor of the 15th-century Palazzo Pisani (S. Marina).
Martin Boyce’s lyrical installation of newly commissioned work for seven interconnected rooms in a 5th century Venetian Palazzo imagined the space as an abandoned garden, introducing into the fading grandeur of the palace groupings of works – suspended aluminium trees, scattered wax paper leaves,raised stepping stones, a wooden bird box, tables and benches.