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19 June, 2019 by Cristina Aymerich

Key ideas from the 58th VENICE BIENNALE I identify with

From Brazil: Visibility. Entitlement. Self-representation. Horizontal respectful relationship. Awareness of the complexities of contemporary self-representation. Suggesting the possibility of a collective consciousness rooted in individual action. Careful not to moralize the subject, not to inscribe the work into a pre-established discourse or theory.

FROM FRANCE: Non-linear layout. The audience is given the active role of finding the route. Numerous points of view, varied perspectives, different paths. Every choice is a step ahead. Getting lost becomes the opportunity of retracing, not the same as regretting, your steps.

FROM INDIA: Art as truth and performative experience, passive resistance, peaceful protest, minimal consumption. Space for self-reflection. Call for attentiveness. Invocation to shared futures.

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I no longer see a clear distinction between “Western” and “Chinese” scholarship on Chinese art. DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE, readership, and academic environment certainly exist, BUT GLOBAL COLLABORATION AND MUTUAL LEARNING HAS BECOME THE DOMINANT TREND.

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«The title of the Art Exhibition in Biennale di Venezia 2019, MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES, could be interpreted as a sort of curse where the expression “interesting times” evokes the idea of challenging or even “menacing” times, but it could also simply be an invitation to always see and consider the course of human events in their complexity, an invitation, thus, that appears to be particularly important in times when, too often, oversimplification seems to prevail, generated by conformism or fear. And I believe that an exhibition of art is worth our attention, first and foremost, if it intends to present us with art and artists as a decisive challenge to all oversimplifying attitudes.»

Paolo Baratta, President of the Biennale di Venezia

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24 March, 2019 by Cristina Aymerich

IMAGES AS CATALYST FOR DIALOG

On following this dream of bringing into being an image of race, one race that embraces all of us, I just had to open my eyes to realize how my effort already belongs to a world-wide-web net of dreamers.

TO CREATE NEW MEANING

I was wondering whether we are supposed to take the polychromatic society we happen to live in as a threat. I would rather take it as a challenge. Shall we not dear to trying to minding the ethnosphere, as it has become in the current time: provocative in its diversity?

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Key ideas from the 58th VENICE BIENNALE I identify with

I no longer see a clear distinction between “Western” and “Chinese” scholarship on Chinese art. DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE, readership, and academic environment certainly exist, BUT GLOBAL COLLABORATION AND MUTUAL LEARNING HAS BECOME THE DOMINANT TREND.

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Paolo Baratta, President of the Biennale di Venezia

Cultural growth depends on substantive conversations (more…)

IMAGES AS CATALYST FOR DIALOG

TO CREATE NEW MEANING