São Paulo, Brazil : 25 September – 12 December 2010
Official Website: http://www.29bienal.org.br
Title: Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar (There is always a cup of sea to sail in)

The title “There is always a cup of sea to sail in” was inspired by a line by the poet Jorge de Lima (1895 – 1953) in his work Invenção de Orfeu (1952). The concept of this year’s São Paulo Biennial is based on the notion that it is impossible to separate art from politics. Art, through ways of its own, is “capable of blocking the sensorial coordinates through which we understand and inhabit the world by bringing into it themes and attitudes that did not previously fit in, thus making it different and wider.”


For this Biennial the curators, Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias, emphasized the importance of intensifying the contacts with Latin America as well as with Africa. The exhibition displays works by 159 artists from all over the world.

Terreiros: 6 conceptual groupings
The exhibition will unfold six issues relating to political thought and action through art within a unique and integrated curatorial space. Each of the issues that order conceptual groupings in space will have an ambient art project to be developed for activation and public use within a program of corresponding events.

The discussions that guide, and therefore denominate, the conceptual surroundings of each of these terreiros, are:

  • The skin of the invisible
  • Said, unsaid, forbidden
  • I am the street
  • Remembrance and oblivion
  • Far away, right here
  • The other, the same

Some Participants:

1. Alfredo Jaar: The eyes of Gutete Emerita
The eyes of Gutete Emerita

2. Cildo Meireles: Inserções em circuitos ideológicos: Projeto Cédula
Inserções em circuitos ideológicos: Projeto Cédula

3. Francis Alÿs: Tornado
Tornado

4. Jean-Luc Godard: Je vous salue Sarajevo [Ave, Sarajevo]
Je vous salue Sarajevo

5. Lygia Pape: Divisor
Divisor

6. Allora e Calzadilla: A movement without development
A movement without development

7. Rosângela Rennó: Menos valia
Menos valia

8. Alessandra Sanguinetti: El tiempo vuela
El tiempo vuela

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