BiennialSeptember 6, 2022
35th Bienal de Sao Paulo proposal
The Fundação Bienal recently released the first curatorial text written by Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, HélioMenezes, and Manuel Borja-Villel, announcing the title and theme for the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – Choreographies of the Impossible, to take place from September to December 2023. The text introduces the key concepts and movements of the next Bienal de São Paulo, the most extensive contemporary art exhibition in the southern hemisphere and the second oldest in the world after the Venice Biennale.
The curators suggested the idea of forming a group with a horizontal structure without the figure of a chief curator, which will be central to their project for the 35th Bienal. Diane Lima is an independent curator, writer, and researcher; Grada Kilomba, an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and academic; Hélio Menezes is a curator, anthropologist, and researcher; and Manuel Borja-Villel is a researcher, art historian, and director of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Choreographies of the Impossible
How can bodies in movement be able to choreograph the possible within the impossible? The 35th Bienal de São Paulo proposal emerges as a mutual project around multiple possibilities to choreograph the impossible. As the title already suggests, it is an invitation to radical imaginations about the unknown, or even about what figures as im/possible.
We employ the term choreography to highlight the practice of drawing sequences of movements across time and space, generating multiple and new fractions, forms, images, and possibilities, despite all the infeasibility and denial. We are interested in the rhythms, tools, strategies, and technologies, as well as in all symbolic, economic, and juridical procedures that extra-disciplinary knowledge are able to promote, producing thus the flight, the refusal, and their poetic exercises.
Here we present the impossible indefinitely, for we comprehend that its generative violence also goes beyond what we can imagine. They are often immeasurable, indescribable, and unimaginable. We are concerned, therefore, about describing without reenacting.
For more information, visit: http://bienal.org.br/home
The curators suggested the idea of forming a group with a horizontal structure without the figure of a chief curator, which will be central to their project for the 35th Bienal. Diane Lima is an independent curator, writer, and researcher; Grada Kilomba, an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and academic; Hélio Menezes is a curator, anthropologist, and researcher; and Manuel Borja-Villel is a researcher, art historian, and director of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Choreographies of the Impossible
How can bodies in movement be able to choreograph the possible within the impossible? The 35th Bienal de São Paulo proposal emerges as a mutual project around multiple possibilities to choreograph the impossible. As the title already suggests, it is an invitation to radical imaginations about the unknown, or even about what figures as im/possible.
We employ the term choreography to highlight the practice of drawing sequences of movements across time and space, generating multiple and new fractions, forms, images, and possibilities, despite all the infeasibility and denial. We are interested in the rhythms, tools, strategies, and technologies, as well as in all symbolic, economic, and juridical procedures that extra-disciplinary knowledge are able to promote, producing thus the flight, the refusal, and their poetic exercises.
Here we present the impossible indefinitely, for we comprehend that its generative violence also goes beyond what we can imagine. They are often immeasurable, indescribable, and unimaginable. We are concerned, therefore, about describing without reenacting.
For more information, visit: http://bienal.org.br/home
