VENICE BIENNALE 2026/ NAURU PAVILION

Little Richard's Almanac

Little Richard’s Almanac is a collaborative video and animation practice working with musicians and sound artists to translate audio into visual systems.

The Work

Ron Laboray’s large-scale paintings and LRA’s continuous animation operate together to form single environment - Disappearance as Perceptual Inquiry - as part of the Nauru Pavilion's inaugural exhibition.

In Laboray’s paintings, cultural references — music, symbols, and color systems — are fragmented and reorganized into dense visual fields.

LRA’s animations extend this into time and sound, translating audio into moving image through collaboration with musicians, together forming an immersive perceptual field.

Ron Laboray

Ron Laboray is an established artist with a multi-decade exhibition history. His work investigates symbolic systems, perception, and visual language.

This installation extends his practice into a hybrid field of painting and time-based media. Familiar cultural references — music, symbols, and color systems — are fragmented and reassembled, inviting viewers into a space of recognition, confusion, and reinterpretation.

Little Richard's Almanac

Little Richard’s Almanac co-founded by Niki Elliott and Ron Laboray creates 2D collage style animated works in collaboration with experimental and independent musical artists.

The videos are exhibited in art spaces and also screened at film festivals internationally, in addition to being streamed and distributed by the musicians and their labels.