Venice Biennale: the world is more than enough

Miles of string, rotating trees, entire shops … the world’s past, present and future is laid out at this year’s compendious Venice Biennale. Adrian Searle embarks on a long walk to enlightenment“Everyone is working happily, the sun is shining all the time. It’s totally awful,” says the voice. We are in Venice again, reclining on white sun-loungers in a dark space, illuminated by a grid of blue light. Up on the screen people are dancing, joking and pretending to be killed. Hito Steyer