14th Curitiba Biennial
21 Sep 2019 - 23 Feb 2020
          14th Curitiba Biennial 2019: Open Borders
The concept of border does not only belong to territory or geography anymore. It has been conceptually expanded and is now part of a bigger universe, one made of broader questions and, overall, more transversal ones. There is already a plural imagination that touches aspects of understood natures. Far away, that is, from commensurate; tranquilizing; pertaining in geographic limits answering to a thematic narrative physics – and closer to the important meaning distortions of social, technological, cognitive and contemporaneous nature. Especially amidst our times, ripe with changes and transformations of multiple signs (with the concurrency of new time and space coordinates, globalization, post-history, the worldwide technologization, environmental crisis, the search for new cosmologies etc.), which moves the meaning of old semantics, mono-dimensionally fixated in a single meaning.
On the one hand, contemporary history – that which belongs to our most recent times – has not only been modifying the idea of limits and frontiers; it has been also detracting some older ones, spatially, in the very plane of territory. A fruit of historical conflicts of many kinds, changes in borders, regions, countries have been happening; swapping signs and realities from entire populations’ lives. Our times live under such a degree of uncertainty that physical and symbolical notions of place have been suffering great erosion and transformation, for both good and bad. We now know that real borders exist, but so do invisible ones – they contradict one another, and they establish very unpeaceful conflicts. A border may be many things at the same time.
On the other hand, however, art has always been a space of frontiers, a hiatus between the realms of language and reality, a borderline state of fluctuating, non-fixated nature. When, after all, has art not been such double vigil, such atavistic split from representation, from language? The possibility of naming habitat from language, or even linking oneself to a new place?
We have two movements in front of us: the mutating geography of history and its spatial correlates and the mutating geography of art and its linguistic derivations, in line and difference, convergence and divergence. And it is in such a scope that some contaminating aspects are offered: the 21st century subject lives in a new border condition, with counterposing experiences, faced with alterity and self-absorption. Experiences of violence, domestication and xenophobia (the so-called refugee crisis, or new intercontinental emigratory waves, and the planetwide communication reveal how much the frontier is imploded and exploded and, in consequence, in need of new evaluations and updates). We are, thus, in a new situation of reborders and unborders, new spatial and social, territorial groups, as well as of new artistic experiences of border-art, presence of nomadic (or far from their origins) artists, counting on the existence of works in multicultural partnerships, as well as amplifying even more the field of borders between languages and their connection.
The 2019 Curitiba Biennial intends to incorporate said instigating contemporary condition, opening even more its expositive borders, creating partial venues, convergent with other countries – windows to another platform –, linking itself to artists in the entire world, to artistic production from every cardinal point in the globe and, in this edition, highlighting countries from another emerging geopolitics like the BRICS, with its new intercontinental orbit, as well as symbolic and meaningful European countries , an indispensable cartography and so strictly linked, both historically and culturally to the Americas, to Latin America, to Brazil, and materially to Curitiba. Not only the European cultural melting pot, but its richness and diversity have had a never seen transculturalization in the American continent, an autonomous creation – unprecedented anthropophagy and miscegenation – always worthy of independence, but also of new links and interworld dialectics, such as the new cultural and territorial interconnections of our globalized age. And the artists’ recognized vocation was of revaluating their roles as connectors, contributing to the work in progress that is every process of artistic research, imagery to attain new states of consciousness regarding the surrounding reality and the timeless problems of human condition. And, in consequence, contributing with new thoughts on the construction and the process of another history.
Art, especially when fulfilling a symbolic and speculative function – one of translation and interpretation – inside a Biennial is a high profile social and reflexive task. It has a great responsibility in our aestheticized society, be it as a showcase where art and culture are linked or as a place of action which also reflects the spirit of its time. The Biennial, the border-art, reveals in its turn its own perception of things, of contexts, since it never stops being art and its circumstances. And its chimerical dream of open borders or, even better, of expanding borders, for it is a frank utopia in the making, the openness of a critic hope. What will bring another sensorium, a new contact with what’s sensory, a free production of the being. An antidote-language against fundamentalism, the instrumentalized visuals which still host a singular spiritual benefit. As a space for revelations and image analysis, art also works as a compass of another map in movement, on course, a better cartography: it offers a unique repertoire of signals, a new signage.
Curators:
Adolfo Montejo Navas and Tereza de Arruda
People / Places
A.C.Machado
Brasil
Abraham Palatnik
Brasil
Adel Alloush
Síria
Adolfo Montejo Navas
Espanha/Brasil
Adriana Affortunati
Brasil
Adriana Amodei
Itália
Adriana Córdova
Brasil
Adriana Maria dos Santos
Brasil
Adriana Tabalipa
Brasil
Adriane Guimarães
Brasil
AES+F
Rússia
Agnese Purgatorio
Itália
AIREZ Galeria
 
Alastair MacLennan
Irlanda/Inglaterra
 
Alberto Salvetti
Itália
 
Alejandro Lloret
Cuba
 
Alessandra de Andrade
Brasil
 
Alessandro Zannier
Itália
 
Alex Caminiti
Itália
 
Alex Flemming
Brasil
 
Alexandre Brandão
Brasil
 
Alexis Minkiewicz
Argentina
 
Alexis Pike
Estados Unidos
Aline Dias
Brasil
 
Alvaro de Sá
Brasil
 
Amanda Melo da Mota
Brasil
 
Ana Ayala
Paraguai
 
Ana Beatriz Artigas
Brasil
 
Ana Dantas
Brasil
 
Ana Itália Paraná Mariano
Brasil
 
Ana Sabiá
Brasil
 
Ana Vitória Mussi
Brasil
 
André Nacli
Brasil
 
André Vallias
Brasil
 
Andrea Eichenberger
Brasil
Andressa Argenta
Brasil
 
Andrey Roca
Brasil
 
Angela Lima
Brasil
 
Angelo Utrabo
Brasil
 
Anna Bella Geiger
Brasil
 
Anna Maiolino
Itália/Brasil
 
Anna Moraes
Brasil
 
Anne Le Troter
França
 
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Índia
 
Antoni Muntadas
Espanha
 
António Franchini
Portugal
 
Antonio Trimani
Itália
Ariana Assumpção
Brasil
 
Arnd Christian Müller
Alemanha
 
Arthur Omar
Brasil
 
Associação Profissional dos Artistas Plásticos do Paraná ̵...
 
Atomic Shadows Art
Brasil
 
Aurélio Peluso
Brasil
 
Bai Xiaogang
China
 
Beatriz Rodrigues
Brasil
 
Bento Ribeiro B’Ro
Brasil
 
Berna Reale
Brasil
 
Bia Leite
Brasil
 
Bianca Scliar e Lab. Ei. Laboratório de Ensaios e Imprevistos
Brasil
Biblioteca Pública do Paraná
 
Bill Lundberg
Estados Unidos
 
Bjarne Fostervold
Bolívia
 
Boiler Galeria
 
BRDE Palacete dos Leões
 
Brigitte Waldach
Alemanha
 
Brugnera
Brasil
 
Bruna Alcantara
Brasil
 
Bruna Ribeiro
Brasil
 
Buhlebezwe Siwani
Africa do Sul
 
C.L. Salvaro
Brasil
 
Cabelo
Brasil
CAC – Centro de Ação Cultural
 
Caio Villa de Lima
Brasil
 
Camilotti
Brasil
 
Cao Guimarães
Brasil
 
Cao Jigang
China
 
Carla Linhares
Brasil
 
Carlo Bonfà
Itália
 
Carlos Alberto Franzoni
Brasil
 
Carlos Asp
Brasil
 
Carlos Clémen
Argentina
 
Carlos Pasquetti
Brasil
 
Carmela Gross
Brasil
Casa da Imagem
 
Casa Frederico Kirchgässner
 
Catalina León
Argentina
 
Celestino Dimas
Brasil
 
Central Galeria
 
Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK)
 
Centro Cultural SESI Heitor Stockler de França
 
Centro de Criatividade de Curitiba
 
Centro Juvenil de Artes Plásticas – CJAP
 
César Meneghetti
Brasil
 
Chang Chi Chai
Taiwan
 
Chen Shuxia
China
Choque Cultural Galeria de Arte
 
Christian Balzano
Itália
 
Christopher Livingston
Estados Unidos
 
Cildo Meireles
Brasil
 
Claiton Biaggi
Brasil
 
Clara Fernandes
Brasil
 
Claudia Zimmer
Brasil
 
Clemens Krauss
Áustria
 
Coletivo Duas Marias
Brasil
 
Coletivo Inço (Diana Chiodelli e Audrian Cassanelli)
Brasil
 
Cristina Brattig Almeida
Brasil
 
Cyntia Werner
Brasil
Dagmar Diekmann
Alemanha
 
Dai Hua
China
 
Dai Yun
China
 
Dailor Varela
Brasil
 
Daniel Canogar
Espanha
 
Daniel Duda
Brasil
 
Daniel Faust
Suiça
 
Daniel Mullen
Escócia
 
Daniela Soares
Brasil
 
Davide Boriani
Itália
 
Débora Ling
Brasil
 
Diana Aisenberg
Argentina
Diego de Los Campos
Uruguai
 
Diego Rayck
Brasil
 
Dirce Körbes
Brasil
 
Dora Naspolini
Brasil
 
Eduardo Kac
Brasil
 
Eduardo Scala
Espanha
 
Elaine Tedesco
Brasil
 
Elena Dahn
Argentina
 
Eliane Prolik
Brasil
 
Elke Hülse
Brasil
 
Embaixada do Brasil em Roma
 
Emmanuel Bornstein
França
Erik Winkowski
EUA
 
Ernestine White-Mifetu
África do Sul
 
Ernie Koela
África do Sul
 
Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná (EMBAP)
 
Esenjia Bannan
Uzbequistão
 
Espaço Cultural Amazém – Coletivo Elza
 
Espaço Cultural Renato Russo
 
Fabio Bustani Carrijo
Brasil
 
Fabio Dudas
Brasil
 
Falves Silva
Brasil
 
Fan Bo
China
 
Fan Xueyi
China
Farnese de Andrade Neto
Brasil
 
Fê Luz
Brasil
 
Fernanda Azou
Brasil
 
Fernanda Magalhães
Brasil
 
Fernando Lemos
Portugal/Brasil
 
Fernando Lindote
Brasil
 
Fernando Moleta
Brasil
 
Fernando Ribeiro
Brasil
 
Fernando Velloso
Brasil
 
Filipe Lippe
Brasil
 
Flávia Duzzo
Brasil
 
Flávia Vazzoler
Brasil
Flávio Carvalho
Brasil
 
Fran Favero
Brasil
 
Francine Goudel
Brasil
 
Franco Mazzucchelli
Itália
 
Fu Zhongwang
China
 
Fundação Cultural BADESC
 
Gabriela Urtiaga
Brasil
 
Gaëlle Choisne
França
 
Galeira de Arte Zilda Fraletti
 
Galeria ARQ/ART
 
Galeria Municipal de Arte Pedro Paulo Vecchietti
 
Galeria Ponto de Fuga
Geórgia Kyriakakis
Brasil
 
Gerda Lepke
Alemanha
 
Gianfranco Gentile
Itália
 
Giovana Casagrande
Brasil
 
Giselle Beiguelman
Brasil
 
Gu Zhenqing
China
 
Guilherme Moreira
Brasil
 
Guilherme Zawa
Brasil
 
Guita Soifer
Brasil
 
Gustavo Caboco
Brasil
 
Gustavo Reginato
Brasil
 
Gustavo Silvamaral
Brasil
Gustavo Tabares
Uruguai
 
H-AL Alexandre Linhares e Thifany F.
Brasil
 
Hannes Egger
Itália
 
Hannu Palosuo
 
Hassan Meer
Oman
 
He Yunchang
China
 
Helder Martinovsky
Brasil
 
Helena Wong
Brasil
 
Hélio Dutra
Brasil
 
Henry Goulart
Brasil
 
Hermeto Pascoal
Brasil
 
Hito Steyerl
Alemanha
Hu Quanchun
China
 
Hu Wei
China
 
Huang Keyi
China
 
Huang Wong Sally
China
 
Igor Grubić
Croácia
 
Igreja Universsauria
Brasil
 
Ilana Bar
Brasil
 
Ilca Barcellos
Brasil
 
Ilya e Emilia Kabakov
Rússia
 
Inés Drangosch
Argentina
 
Inés Raiteri
Argentina
 
Isabê
Brasil
Isabelle Borges
Brasil
 
Isadora Stähelin
Brasil
 
Jairo Valdati
Brasil
 
James Webb
África do Sul
 
Jan M.O.
Brasil
 
Janaína Corá
Brasil
 
Jane Katharina di Renzo e Ineke Reinders
Alemanha/Turquia
 
Janor Vasconcelos
Brasil
 
Jasmina Metwaly e Philip Rizk
Egito
 
Jiao Xingtao
China
 
Joan Brossa
Espanha
 
João Miot
Brasil
João Paulo de Carvalho
Brasil
 
Jorge Macchi
Argentina
 
Jorge Miño
Argentina
 
Jorge Pombo
Espanha
 
José Maria Dias da Cruz
Brasil
 
Josh DeWeese
Estados Unidos
 
Juan Luis Moraza
Espanha
 
Julia Bornefeld
Alemanha
 
Juliana Crispe
Brasil
 
Juliana Hoffmann
Brasil
 
Juliana Stein
Brasil
 
Juliane Fuganti
Brasil
Júlio Leite
Brasil
 
Jurgen Ots
Bélgica
 
Kabe Rodríguez
Brasil
 
Kang Jianfei
China
 
Kang Lei
China
 
Karina El Azem
Argentina
 
Kelly Kreis
Brasil
 
Kellyn Batistela
Brasil
 
Kevin Lustgarten
Venezuela
 
Khaya Witbooi
África do Sul
 
Laïs Krücken
Brasil
 
Leandro Jung
Brasil
Leandro Maman
Brasil
 
Leandro Serpa
Brasil
 
Lei Jianhua
China
 
Leila Alberti
Brasil
 
Lela Martorano
Brasil
 
Lena Peixer
Brasil
 
León Ferrari
Argentina
 
Leonardo Kossoy
Brasil
 
Lerato Shadi
África do Sul
 
Letícia Cardoso
Brasil
 
Li Bangyao
China
 
Li Hongbo
China
Li Ronglin
China
 
Li Xiangning
China
 
Li Xiangqun
China
 
Li Yi Hsuan
Taiwan
 
Lilian Barbon
Brasil
 
Lilian Döring
Brasil
 
Liliana Porter
Argentina
 
Liu Qinghe
China
 
Liu Zheng
China
 
Liv Schulman
França
 
Llorenç Barber
Espanha
 
Loio-Pérsio
Brasil
Louise Bourgeois
França
 
Lu Zhengyuan
China
 
Lu Zhengyuan
China
 
Luciana Petrelli
Brasil
 
Lucie Schreiner
Brasil
 
Lucila Horn
Brasil
Madedi
Lucky Mbonani, Jabulani Luisbeth Ramashilo, Madedi Wilhelminah...
África do Sul
 
Luigi Dellatorre
Itália
 
Luis González Palma
Guatemala
 
Luiz Gustavo Vidal
Brasil
 
Lavalle
Brasil
 
Luiz Monken
Brasil
Luo Fahui
China
 
Lv Pinchang
China
 
Ma Wenjia
China
 
Maison du Portugal
 
Marcelo Cipis
Brasil
 
Marcelo Conrado
Brasil
 
Marcelo Moscheta
Brasil
 
Márcia X.
Brasil
 
Marco Bertin
Itália
 
Marco Gradi
Itália
 
Marcos Amaro
Brasil
 
Maria Lúcia Cattani
Brasil
Mariana Canet
Brasil
 
Marica Moro
Itália
 
Marilyn Arsem
Estados Unidos
 
Marilyn Green
Reino Unido
 
Marina Weffort
Brasil
 
Mário Carneiro
França
 
Mário Cravo Neto
Brasil
 
Mario Rubinski
Brasil
 
Marisa Caichiolo
Argentina
 
Marivone Dias
Brasil
 
Marlan Cotrim
Brasil
 
Marta Berger
Brasil
Marta Facco
Brasil
 
Martha Ozol
Brasil
 
Mary Sibande
África do Sul
 
Massimo Scaringella
Itália
 
Matheus Abel
Brasil
 
Matteo Mezzadri
Itália
 
Mauro Espíndola
Brasil
 
Meg Tomio Roussenq
Brasil
 
Meital Katz-Minerbo
Israel
 
Melvin Quaresma
Brasil
 
Memorial de Curitiba
 
Memorial Meyer Filho
Meyer Filho
Brasil
 
Michele Schiocchet
Brasil
 
Miguel Rio Branco
Espanha
 
Mira Schendel
Suíça
 
Moacy Cirne
Brasil
 
Munkhjargal Jargalsaikhan
Mongolia
 
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Rosário (MACRO)
 
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes – Buenos Aires
 
Museu Casa Alfredo Andersen
 
Museu da Escola Catarinense – MESC
 
Museu da Fotografia de Curitiba
 
Museu da Gravura
Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS)
 
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Cascavel
 
Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MACPR)
 
Museu de Arte da UFPR – MusA
 
Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina – MASC
 
Museu de Arte Indígena (MAI)
 
Museu Guido Viaro
 
Museu Guido Viaro
 
Museu Municipal de Arte (MuMA)
 
Museu Nacional da República
 
Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes
 
Museu Oscar Niemeyer
Museu Paranaense
 
Museu Universitário PUCPR
 
Museum Experimental Gallery at the University of Electronic Sc...
 
Muzna Al Musafer
Oman
 
NaCasa – Coletivo Artístico
 
Navjot Altaf
Índia
 
Neide de Sá
Brasil
 
Nelson Leirner
Brasil
 
Newton Goto
Brasil
 
Nicanor Parra
Chile
 
Nino Rezende
Brasil
 
Nomin Bold
Mongólia
Noria Mabasa
África do Sul
 
NRabelo
Brasil
 
O Sitio
 
Odete Calderan
Brasil
 
Olaf Nicolai
Alemanha
 
Palácio Iguaçu
 
Palácio Itamaraty
 
Pang Maokun
China
 
Paolo Mozzo
Itália
 
Patrícia Claro
Chile
 
Patricia Di Loreto
Brasil
 
Patricio Farías
Chile
Paulo Bruscky
Brasil
 
Paulo Climachauska
Brasil
 
Paulo Gamma
Brasil
 
Paulo Pasta
Brasil
 
Pedro Martins
Brasil
 
Pedro Paulo Vecchietti
Brasil
 
Peter Lindenberg
Alemanha
 
Philipp Messner
Itália
 
Piero Mottola
Itália
 
Priscila Costa Oliveira
Brasil
 
Projeto Fidalga
 
Rakhi Peswani
Índia
Raquel Fayad
Brasil
 
Raquel Stolf
Brasil
 
Raul Mourão
Brasil
 
Reena Kallat
Índia
 
Regina Chulam
Brasil
 
Regina Silveira
Brasil
 
Regina Vater
Brasil
 
Rejane Cantoni e Leonardo Crescenti
Brasil
 
RenderBurger
Irã
 
Ricardo Ramos
Brasil
 
Rimon Guimarães
Brasil
 
Rodrigo Andrade
Brasil
Rogério Ghomes
Brasil
 
Rômulo Barros
Brasil
 
Ronald Simon
Brasil
 
Rosa Luz
Brasil
 
Rosane Cechinel
Brasil
 
Rosangela Becker
Brasil
 
Rosângela Rennó
Brasil
 
Royce Smith
Estados Unidos
 
Rubens Gerchman
Brasil
 
Rubens Oestroem
Brasil
 
Sandra Fávero
Brasil
 
Sandra Johnston
Inglaterra
Sandra Makowiecky
Brasil
 
Sandro Orlandi
Itália
 
Sara Ramos
Brasil
 
Sarah Revoltella
Suíça
 
Sarah Uriarte e Kim Coimbra
Brasil
 
Sebastião G. Branco
Brasil
 
Secretaria de Estado da Cultura (SEEC)
 
Sergei Tchoban
Rússia
 
Sérgio Adriano H
Brasil
 
Sergio Racanati
Itália
 
Sesc Paço da Liberdade
 
Sethembile Msezane
África do Sul
Shay Frisch
Israel
 
Shirley Paes Leme
Brasil
 
Silvana Macêdo
Brasil
 
SIM Galeria
 
Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
 
Simone Milak
Brasil
 
Simphiwe Ndzube
África do Sul
 
Sofia Brito
Brasil
 
Solar do Rosário
 
Sonia Loren
Brasil
 
Sonia Vasconcellos
Brasil
 
Soyoung Chung
França/Coréia do Sul
Stefano Cagol
Itália
 
Su Hui-Yu
Taiwan
 
Sui Jianguo
China
 
Sun Lu
China
 
Susan Mckinley
Estados Unidos
 
Suzana Queiroga
Portugal/Brasil
 
Talita Virgínia
Brasil
 
Tan Xun
China
 
Tarcísio Ullrich
Brasil
 
Teatro Guaíra
 
Teatro Guaíra
 
Teresa Pereda
Argentina
Tereza de Arruda
Brasil/Alemanha
 
TETRA Gallery
 
Thalita Caetano
Brasil
 
Thania Petersen
África da Sul
 
Thu-Van Tran
Vietnam
 
TiroTTi
Brasil
 
Tobias Zielony
Alemanha
 
Tom Drake Bennett
Reino Unido
 
Tong Yanrunan
China
 
Valérie Oka
Costa do Marfim
 
Vera Chaves Barcellos
Brasil
 
Verena Smit
Brasil
Verônica Filipak
Brasil
 
Veronika Kellndorfer
Alemanha
 
Victor Arruda
Brasil
 
Vilma Slomp
Brasil
 
Virginia Ryan
Austrália/Itália
 
Vivian Villanova
Brasil
 
Vladimir Potapov
Rússia
 
Walter Thoms
Brasil
 
Waltercio Caldas
Brasil
 
Wang Cheng Yun
China
 
Wang Dezhong
China
 
Wang Jingwei
China
Wang Qingsong
China
 
Wang Shaojun
China
 
Wang Xiao
China
 
Wisrah Villefort
Brasil
 
Wlademir Dias-Pino
Brasil
 
Wu Yongping
China
 
Xiong Yu
China
 
Yan Feng
China
 
Yan Longjiao
China
 
Yanbei
China
 
Yang Chun
China
 
Yang Lufeng
China
Yang Xuening
China
 
Yao Jui-Chung
Taiwan
 
Yara Guasque
Brasil
 
Yara Osman
Síria
 
Ybakatu Espaço de Arte
 
Yiftah Peled
Israel
 
Yohan Han
Coréia do Sul
 
Yu Fan
China
 
Yu Xiangming
China
 
Zhan Wang
China
 
Zhang Congyun
China
 
Zhang Dan
China
Zhang Songtao
China
 
Zhang Wei
China
 
Zhang Yong
China
 
Zhao Guangyi
China
 
Zhong Biao e Yan Yonghong
China
 
Zuleika Bisacchi Galeria de Arte
 
Zurab Tsereteli
Russia
       
    
        
    
    The concept of border does not only belong to territory or geography anymore. It has been conceptually expanded and is now part of a bigger universe, one made of broader questions and, overall, more transversal ones. There is already a plural imagination that touches aspects of understood natures. Far away, that is, from commensurate; tranquilizing; pertaining in geographic limits answering to a thematic narrative physics – and closer to the important meaning distortions of social, technological, cognitive and contemporaneous nature. Especially amidst our times, ripe with changes and transformations of multiple signs (with the concurrency of new time and space coordinates, globalization, post-history, the worldwide technologization, environmental crisis, the search for new cosmologies etc.), which moves the meaning of old semantics, mono-dimensionally fixated in a single meaning.
On the one hand, contemporary history – that which belongs to our most recent times – has not only been modifying the idea of limits and frontiers; it has been also detracting some older ones, spatially, in the very plane of territory. A fruit of historical conflicts of many kinds, changes in borders, regions, countries have been happening; swapping signs and realities from entire populations’ lives. Our times live under such a degree of uncertainty that physical and symbolical notions of place have been suffering great erosion and transformation, for both good and bad. We now know that real borders exist, but so do invisible ones – they contradict one another, and they establish very unpeaceful conflicts. A border may be many things at the same time.
On the other hand, however, art has always been a space of frontiers, a hiatus between the realms of language and reality, a borderline state of fluctuating, non-fixated nature. When, after all, has art not been such double vigil, such atavistic split from representation, from language? The possibility of naming habitat from language, or even linking oneself to a new place?
We have two movements in front of us: the mutating geography of history and its spatial correlates and the mutating geography of art and its linguistic derivations, in line and difference, convergence and divergence. And it is in such a scope that some contaminating aspects are offered: the 21st century subject lives in a new border condition, with counterposing experiences, faced with alterity and self-absorption. Experiences of violence, domestication and xenophobia (the so-called refugee crisis, or new intercontinental emigratory waves, and the planetwide communication reveal how much the frontier is imploded and exploded and, in consequence, in need of new evaluations and updates). We are, thus, in a new situation of reborders and unborders, new spatial and social, territorial groups, as well as of new artistic experiences of border-art, presence of nomadic (or far from their origins) artists, counting on the existence of works in multicultural partnerships, as well as amplifying even more the field of borders between languages and their connection.
The 2019 Curitiba Biennial intends to incorporate said instigating contemporary condition, opening even more its expositive borders, creating partial venues, convergent with other countries – windows to another platform –, linking itself to artists in the entire world, to artistic production from every cardinal point in the globe and, in this edition, highlighting countries from another emerging geopolitics like the BRICS, with its new intercontinental orbit, as well as symbolic and meaningful European countries , an indispensable cartography and so strictly linked, both historically and culturally to the Americas, to Latin America, to Brazil, and materially to Curitiba. Not only the European cultural melting pot, but its richness and diversity have had a never seen transculturalization in the American continent, an autonomous creation – unprecedented anthropophagy and miscegenation – always worthy of independence, but also of new links and interworld dialectics, such as the new cultural and territorial interconnections of our globalized age. And the artists’ recognized vocation was of revaluating their roles as connectors, contributing to the work in progress that is every process of artistic research, imagery to attain new states of consciousness regarding the surrounding reality and the timeless problems of human condition. And, in consequence, contributing with new thoughts on the construction and the process of another history.
Art, especially when fulfilling a symbolic and speculative function – one of translation and interpretation – inside a Biennial is a high profile social and reflexive task. It has a great responsibility in our aestheticized society, be it as a showcase where art and culture are linked or as a place of action which also reflects the spirit of its time. The Biennial, the border-art, reveals in its turn its own perception of things, of contexts, since it never stops being art and its circumstances. And its chimerical dream of open borders or, even better, of expanding borders, for it is a frank utopia in the making, the openness of a critic hope. What will bring another sensorium, a new contact with what’s sensory, a free production of the being. An antidote-language against fundamentalism, the instrumentalized visuals which still host a singular spiritual benefit. As a space for revelations and image analysis, art also works as a compass of another map in movement, on course, a better cartography: it offers a unique repertoire of signals, a new signage.
Curators:
Adolfo Montejo Navas and Tereza de Arruda
People / Places
A.C.Machado
Brasil
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