Brazil: Archaeologies of Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale
Two years after Adriano Pedrosa made history as the first Latin American curator to direct the Venice Biennale, Brazil returns to the Arsenale with a more fragmented, spiritual and politically charged presence. Across the Giardini, Arsenale and collateral exhibitions throughout Venice, Brazilian artists engage with themes of memory, colonial violence, ancestry, spirituality and processes of transformation. In a Biennale haunted by questions of war, displacement and historical repair and marked from its opening by geopolitical tensions, protests and the resignation of the international jury chaired by Brazilian curator Solange Farkas, Brazil appears less as a unified national image than as a constellation of tensions, wounds and reinventions.
Venice Biennale 2024 : When being traditional makes you radical
The 60th Venice Biennale, titled Foreigners Everywhere, opened to public on April the 20th at Giardini and Arsenale; As a guiding principle, the Biennale Arte 2024 and its curator Adriano Pedrosa has favored artists who have never participated in the International Exhibition. With a Nucleo Storico gathering works from the 20th century from the Global South including Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia which modernisms remain largely unknown.