The Liverpool Biennial, now in its fifth edition, may never surpass Tatsurou Bashi's masterstroke, Villa Victoria, from the second edition in 2002. The artist had constructed a temporary hotel room around an imposing piece of nineteenth-century civic statuary dominating one of Liverpool's busiest squares. Guests spent a night in a makeshift bedroom dominated by a colossal bronze Queen Victoria while urban traffic swirled ceaselessly round just outside the room's thin walls, a dislocated island of intimacy and stillness amid a space of maximum exposure.
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If Villa Victoria was all about displacement--the highlight of a sprawling biennial six years …
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