BiennialOctober 4, 2022
Chile receives a traveling exhibition of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo
Santiago, Chile, is the first city outside of Brazil to receive the traveling edition of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo – Though It’s Dark, Still I Sing, scheduled to open on the 1st of October at the Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cerillos. The exhibition, free to all visitors, runs until the 27th of November and has been made possible through a partnership between the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile.
The Bienal de São Paulo’s traveling exhibition program is an initiative celebrating its sixth edition in 2022. In 2019, the traveling exhibition of the 33rd Bienal passed through eight cities, of which one was abroad and was visited by more than 170 thousand people.
In addition to the exhibitions, the initiative also includes activities related to education and diffusion, aligned with the Fundação’s mission to integrate culture and education with everyday life”, stresses José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. The exhibition at CNAC features more than fifty works by 13 artists from the 34th edition of the Bienal (2020-2021), specifically selected for Chile by the curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and which includes works by Chileans Seba Calfuqueo and Alfredo Jaar. It is important to note that, on this occasion, their participation involved support from the country’s Mincap and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For the Chilean capital, the exhibition has been shaped around the songs of the Tikmũ'ũn people, who by the middle of the 20th century had almost become extinct after being forcibly moved from their native territory in Brazil’s southeast. For them, singing is a way of structuring their lives, referencing the environment, their everyday routines, wisdom, and cosmology.
Chilean artists have prepared a special intervention with this premise in mind. For the opening, Seba Calfuqueo will be presenting a performance, and Alfredo Jaar will draw his work Chiaroscuro in new colors and with a translation of the quotation which is part of the work into Spanish. The exhibition also includes work by Victor Anicet (Martinique), Adrián Balseca (Ecuador), Jaider Esbell (Brazil), Noa Eshkol (Israel), León Ferrari (Argentina), Gustavo Caboco (Brazil), Joan Jonas (United States), Hanni Kamaly (Norway), Frida Orupabo (Norway), Gala Porras-Kim (Colombia) and Alice Shintani (Brazil).
The Bienal de São Paulo’s traveling exhibition program is an initiative celebrating its sixth edition in 2022. In 2019, the traveling exhibition of the 33rd Bienal passed through eight cities, of which one was abroad and was visited by more than 170 thousand people.
In addition to the exhibitions, the initiative also includes activities related to education and diffusion, aligned with the Fundação’s mission to integrate culture and education with everyday life”, stresses José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. The exhibition at CNAC features more than fifty works by 13 artists from the 34th edition of the Bienal (2020-2021), specifically selected for Chile by the curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and which includes works by Chileans Seba Calfuqueo and Alfredo Jaar. It is important to note that, on this occasion, their participation involved support from the country’s Mincap and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For the Chilean capital, the exhibition has been shaped around the songs of the Tikmũ'ũn people, who by the middle of the 20th century had almost become extinct after being forcibly moved from their native territory in Brazil’s southeast. For them, singing is a way of structuring their lives, referencing the environment, their everyday routines, wisdom, and cosmology.
Chilean artists have prepared a special intervention with this premise in mind. For the opening, Seba Calfuqueo will be presenting a performance, and Alfredo Jaar will draw his work Chiaroscuro in new colors and with a translation of the quotation which is part of the work into Spanish. The exhibition also includes work by Victor Anicet (Martinique), Adrián Balseca (Ecuador), Jaider Esbell (Brazil), Noa Eshkol (Israel), León Ferrari (Argentina), Gustavo Caboco (Brazil), Joan Jonas (United States), Hanni Kamaly (Norway), Frida Orupabo (Norway), Gala Porras-Kim (Colombia) and Alice Shintani (Brazil).
