Choreographies of the impossible- 35th bienal de sao paulo
/ Curators/Editors: Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Helio Menezes, Manuel Borja-Villel
- Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo; 2023
- 353p; 28x21cm
The second oldest biennial in the world and the largest contemporary art event in the Southern Hemisphere and the Americas. The exhibition presents approximately 1,100 artworks of different mediums, spread over the 30,000 square meters of the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in Ibirapuera Park.
After extensive research into the urgencies of our times, the curators affirm: “Our aim was to create an edition without categories or limiting structures. This vision was born from within our curatorial team, where we embraced a decentralized system, moving away from traditional norms. We made a conscious choice not to have a chief curator, thereby dissolving hierarchical structures. Our roster covers a broad spectrum of artistic forms and voices from all over the world. So, the question that remains is: how are the impossibilities of our daily lives reflected in artistic production? The choreographies of the impossible help us to understand that all of us find strategies every day that challenge the impossible, and it is these strategies and tools for making the impossible possible that we will find in the artists’ works.”