Signs of historicism, religious iconicity and psychoanalytic thought permeate Rachel Lee Hovnanian’s current exhibition, Angels Listening, now on view as part of the 2022 Venice Biennale. Text—including the viewer’s own written words—and sculpture make up the central structure of this project. Curated by Annalisa Bugliani, Angels Listening redirects the thematic trajectory of this year’s Biennale—named The Milk of Dreams after the Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington’s fairy tale book of the same name—toward socially engaged artmaking that operates through audience participation.