The 31st Bienal de Sao Paulo will be titled How to talk about things that don’t exist. Established by the curatorial team – Charles Esche, Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente and Oren Sagiv as well by the associate curators Benjamin Seroussi and Luiza Proença – the title is a poetic call to put the capability of art at the centre of the event.
The conviction of the curatorial team of the 31st Bienal is that art can offer encounters with experiences and emotions that are not present in most analyses of human life. If individuals or groups within a society can recognise, through art, the things that they cannot acknowledge through other means, then they might be empowered to transform themselves in unpredictable ways. The hope of the 31st Bienal is that it can conjure these things into existence through artistic acts of will. Perhaps this is, in the end, the core function of art both historically and today.
AC/E will be collaborating in this edition giving support to the Spanish artist invited to participate.
The conviction of the curatorial team of the 31st Bienal is that art can offer encounters with experiences and emotions that are not present in most analyses of human life. If individuals or groups within a society can recognise, through art, the things that they cannot acknowledge through other means, then they might be empowered to transform themselves in unpredictable ways. The hope of the 31st Bienal is that it can conjure these things into existence through artistic acts of will. Perhaps this is, in the end, the core function of art both historically and today.
AC/E will be collaborating in this edition giving support to the Spanish artist invited to participate.
