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2014
Alejandra Riera with Ueinzz
[on the date of 3 September 2014]
– Abandoned cinema.
– Partial view. The removal of the Christopher Columbus statue, Parque Colón, Buenos Aires, February…
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10.000 års nordisk folkekunst
års nordisk folkekunst
1961-1965
Asger Jorn Photographs by Gérard Franceschi
Recuperating what we, as a culture, have lost or forgotten, and proposing it as a way to construct our future. This is perhaps how we…
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A última palavra é a penúltima – 2
da Vertigem
The pedestrian underpass of Rua Xavier de Toledo had been closed for more than fifteen years when Teatro da Vertigem first staged, in 2008, A última palavra é a…
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A família do Capitão Gervásio
família do Capitão Gervásio
2013
Kasper Akhøj e Tamar Guimarães
In the town of Palmelo in rural Goiás, Central Brazil, Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj recorded images of a healing session at the spiritual centre…
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A fortaleza / Nada é
fortaleza / Nada é
2010 / 2014
Yuri Firmeza
In A fortaleza [The Fortress] Yuri Firmeza re-enacts, nearly twenty years later, a childhood photograph in which he strikes the classic bodybuilder’s pose, bending his…
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A Research
Perjovschi
Lia Perjovschi’s practice is shaped by her curiosity about the cultural, social and political context in which she lives – a context that, like her art, has changed dramatically over…
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AfroUFO
Borges e Yonamine
A UFO is a thing that comes from the future – a future that we might never arrive at, that doesn’t belong to us, but that might show us…
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Agoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua)
caso exacto de la estatua)
2014
Asier Mendizabal
Arriving on the back of recent sculptural works like Hard Edge (2010), which comprises wood beams all marked through a gesture of subtraction, Asier Mendizabal has made…
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Aguaespejo granadino / Fuego en Castilla
granadino / Fuego en Castilla
1953-1955 / 1958-1960
Val del Omar
Aguaespejo granadino [Water-mirror of Granada] and Fuego en Castilla [Fire in Castile] are the outcome of technical obsession and grammatical delirium. Reminiscent of autos sacramentales –…
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Apelo
Ianni and Débora Maria da Silva
Apelo [Plea] emerges from the urgent need to address the institutionalisation of violence in Brazil – something that has developed throughout the country’s history, beginning with the…
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Archéologie marine
marine
2014
El Hadji Sy
From Gorée Island, right off the coast of Dakar, to Recife in Brazil’s northeastern coast, there are just over 3,170 kilometres: a distance that by today’s standards is arguably small.…
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Bajo presión
presión
2014
Lázaro Saavedra
At the third Bienal de La Habana in 1989, Lázaro Saavedra, along with other Cuban artists from his generation, was included in the section ‘The Tradition of Humour’, in a curatorial…
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Balayer - A Map of Sweeping
– A Map of Sweeping
2014
Imogen Stidworthy in collaboration with Gisèle Durand-Ruiz and Jacques Lin
and with the participation of Christoph Berton, Gilou Toche and Malika Bolainseur
Imogen Stidworthy’s project for the 31st…
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Black Series / TrabZONE / and other works
Series / TrabZONE / and other works
2011-2012 / 2010 / 2014
Nilbar Güres
Appliances and technologies, habits and beliefs, and the ways in which theses elements create and empower forms of behaviour and action provide the common…
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Breakfast
Orpaz
Far from the ecstatic images that we might associate with a night out, the depersonalised, black-and-white figures that form the dancing crowd in Leigh Orpaz’s video Breakfast resemble the living dead: eyes…
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Capital
Sasnal
Rendered in a dark palette of greys, blues and greens, Wilhelm Sasnal’s paintings at the 31st Bienal reflect upon the sombre legacy of colonialism. Copernicus (2004) and Christopher Columbus Tomb (2009) both…
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Casa de caboclo
de caboclo
2014
Arthur Scovino
Simplicity and strength – those are the main qualities of the caboclo, one of the fundamental entities of Afro-Brazilian religions umbanda and candomblé.
Simplicity of articulation, address and means characterises…
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Céu / El Dorado
/ El Dorado
2014 / 2006-2007
Danica Dakić in collaboration with the children and staff of the Colégio de Santa
Inês, with the photographer Egbert Trogemann (Céu)
In dialogue with visual anthropology and performance theory, Danica Dakić…
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Cities by the River
by the River
2014
Anna Boghiguian
Questions about the quality of existence and the inequality of access to resources are among the main concerns of Anna Boghiguian’s work today. Boghiguian is a nomadic observer of the…
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Counting the Stars
the Stars
2014
Nurit Sharett
On a journey that led her from Natal to São Paulo, stopping in Campina Grande, Recife and Belo Horizonte along the way, Nurit Sharett assumed a foreign viewpoint in her…
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Dark Clouds of the Future
Pachpute
The drawing which appears on the poster for the 31st Bienal, made by Prabhakar Pachpute, is a fragile structure shaped like the Tower of Babel or a shell containing a group of…
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Dios es marica
es marica
1973-2002
Nahum Zenil / Ocaña / Sergio Zevallos /
Yeguas del Apocalipsis (Organised by Miguel A. López)
Dios es marica [God is Queer] brings together four artists or collectives whose work is…
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El shabono abandonado
Downey
Between November 1976 and May 1977, Juan Downey lived with the Yanomami communities of Bishassi and Tayeri. As soon as he arrived in the territory of the Yanomami, Downey engrossed…
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Errar de Dios
de Dios
2014
Etcétera… and León Ferrari
Palabras ajenas [Words of Others]: God’s Convesations with Some Men and of Some Men with Some Men and with God (1967) is a work by León Ferrari…
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Espacio para abortar
para abortar
2014
Mujeres Creando
The contribution of Mujeres Creando – a collective of urban activists, feminists and anarchists based in La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia – to…
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Handira / Bert Flint / Granada
/ Bert Flint / Granada
1997 / 1997-1998 / 2002
Teresa Lanceta
To weave is to interlace the threads on a warp with those of the weft following a specific pattern. It is a structural process…
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Histórias de aprendizagem
de aprendizagem
2014
Voluspa Jarpa
Voluspa Jarpa’s work questions the representations of history in various regimes of the image, most notably in the mass media and in art. Histórias de aprendizagem [Learning…
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Imponderables / Perímetros
/ Perímetros
2009 / 2012-2014
Johanna Calle
The suite of drawings Imponderables – one of the works by Johanna Calle in the 31st Bienal – consists in disjointed or broken grilles that bring to…
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In the Land of the Giants and other works
the Land of the Giants
and other works
2009-2013
Jo Baer
The six paintings presented by Jo Baer at the 31st Bienal all relate to a particular site in Ireland, where she lived in…
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Inferno
Yael Bartana
In Inferno [Hell], Yael Bartana films the inauguration of a grand temple, its destruction and the worship of its debris. The starting point is the construction of a replica…
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Invention
Lewis Exhibition design in collaboration with Adam Bandler and Mark Wasiuta. Director of photography Martin Testar
The large-scale installation Invention is based on a simple, yet hugely provocative fictional assumption. The…
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It’s Just the Spin of Inner Life
Just the Spin of Inner Life
2011-2014
Agnieszka Piksa
Pairing imagery sourced from a publication on Polish folk art with illustrations from a 1970s popular science book on the origins of the universe,…
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La Escuela Moderna
Escuela Moderna
2014
Archivo F.X. / Pedro G. Romero
Archivo F.X. is an institution working with a vast archive of images of anti-sacramental political iconoclasm in Spain between 1845 and 1945. These images are classified…
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Landversation
2014
Otobong Nkanga
In 2012, Otobong Nkanga presented at Tate Modern, in London, Contained Measures of Shifting States, an installation composed of tables, and at the same time a platform for interaction…
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Línea de vida / Museo Travesti del Perú
de vida /
Museo Travesti del Perú
2009-2013
Giuseppe Campuzano
More than a decade ago, the Peruvian philosopher and drag queen Giuseppe Campuzano (Lima, 1969-2013) created the project Línea de vida / Museo Travesti…
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Letra morta
morta
2014
Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa Director of photography José Mari Zabala
With Letra morta [Dead Letter], Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa has made a film based on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to…
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Letters to the Reader (1864, 1877, 1916, 1923)
to the Reader
(1864, 1877, 1916, 1923)
2014
Walid Raad
Letters to the Reader is part of the ongoing art project Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, initiated in 2007, and which responds…
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Loomshuttles, Warpaths
Doujak and John Barker
The starting point of the ongoing artistic research project Loomshuttles, Warpaths is a collection of textiles from the Andean region made over a period of 35 years.…
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Los incontados: un tríptico
incontados: un tríptico
2014
Mapa Teatro – Laboratorio de artistas
In painting, a triptych is a formal device comprising three sections or panels hinged together. In the recent history of Colombia, the agents…
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Map
Zhijie
Map making is one of the fundamental ways that Western society has come to terms with the world. Through maps, the unknown is made visible and understandable. Yet maps have…
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Martírio
Martins de Melo
‘Flesh is the reason oil painting was invented.’ This quote from Willem De Kooning is presented by Thiago Martins de Melo as the key to understanding his relationship…
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Meeting Point and other works
Pacheco
In the two sets of images presented at the 31st Bienal, Bruno Pacheco furthers the exploration on the formation of collectives and their different modes of operation. In these images,…
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Muhacir
Karamustafa
Gülsün Karamustafa’s work has often reflected upon the hardships of forced migration as political, ethnic and economic borders are continuously redrawn. She first addressed this issue in a series of…
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Mujawara
Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Grupo Contrafilé
Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti have been recently working on Campus in Camps, an educational platform that enables communities of Palestinian refugees to produce new…
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Não é sobre sapatos
Mascaro
For Não é sobre sapatos [It Is Not About Shoes] Gabriel Mascaro has conducted a study of images filmed during the recent protests in several Brazilian cities. As in other…
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Não-ideias
Neves
‘In 1974, Lucimar wanted to come up with an idea to make some money and get her husband out of a jam. She couldn’t think of anything and they remain…
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Nosso Lar, Brasília
Staal
In the years 1944 and 1956, Brazil saw two cities emerge from two fundamental pilars of the country’s imagery, Spiritism and Modernism. The latter was the new capital, Brasília, which,…
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O que caminha ao lado
Beltrán
Concerned with creating systems capable of organising large volumes of wide-ranging information, as well as proposing non-conventional forms of reading and putting these materials into circulation, Erick Beltrán is taking…
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Of Other Worlds That Are on This One / One Hundred Thousand Solitudes
/ 2012-2014
Tony Chakar
Tony Chakar belongs to a generation of Lebanese artists and intellectuals whose most pressing concerns are the Lebanese war and post-war, and, in his particular case, how this past…
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Open Phone Booth
Güreş
The city of Bingöl, in Turkish Kurdistan, where some of Güreş’s extended family live, is inhabited mainly by the Kurdish and Alevi minority – brutally discriminated against by the policies…
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Resimli Tarih
Karamustafa
Shortly after graduating in 1969, Gülsün Karamustafa was convicted for hiding a political fugitive at her home in Istanbul and consequently had her passport annulled until 1987. This was a…
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Revista Urbânia 5
Kunsch and Lilian L’Abbate Kelian
The magazine Urbânia originated from a group project by Núcleo Performático Subterrânea, a collective in São Paulo that staged radical street performances in the early 2000s.…
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RURU
is an artist’s initiative formed in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2000 that has grown in the last fourteen years to become one of the most significant small-scale institutions in South East…
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Sem título
Oliveira
As is his usual practice in the city where he resides – Belém, Pará – Éder Oliveira has created large-scale mural portrait paintings for the 31st Bienal. These portraits might…
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Sergio e Simone
de Medeiros
Simone is a transvestite who takes care of a natural spring – Fonte da Misericórdia – as a shrine for the worship of the Afro-Brazilian orishas. Sergio is an…
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Small World
Avrahami
What do a ghost train, a crime museum and a parading samba school have in common? For Yochai Avrahami, these elements present three ways of telling stories. What is of…
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Spear and other works
Krasiński Photography by Eustachy Kossakowski
Edward Krasiński was both a maker of objects and an actor or performer for the community around him. For most of his life, he lived in…
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The Excluded. In a moment of danger
Excluded.
In a moment of danger
2014 Chto Delat
The art collective Chto Delat (‘What is to be done’) have produced a new film for the 31st Bienal in which the institution of…
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The Incidental Insurgents Part 1 & Part 2
Incidental Insurgents
Part 1 & Part 2
2012-ongoing
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s The Incidental Insurgents is a two-part installation that offers a multi-layered narrative, engaging with the crisis…
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The Last Adventure
Pocztaruk
The Trans-Amazonian Highway was created under Brazil’s latest military regime, during Emílio G. Médici government (1969-1974), to cut the northern half of Brazil’s territory from east to west and promote…
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The Name Giver
Kessus Gedalyovich
As an artist and writer, Michael Kessus Gedalyovich’s work is always in dialogue with Jewish mysticism. The Name Giver takes the biblical story of the creation as its starting…
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The Revolution Must Be a School of Unfettered Thought
Jakobsen and María Berríos
What is a revolutionary exhibition? Or what can a revolutionary exhibition be? A propaganda machine against the inadmissible present? An investigation into the experimental language of revolution?…
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Those of Whom
Gowda
Rubber and iron, thread, needles and pigment, incense and ash, cow dung, car bumpers and hair – everyday materials figure prominently in the sculptural practice of Sheela Gowda. In her…
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Untitled
Suter
Since leaving Switzerland, in 1982, Vivian Suter’s work is closely bound up with the place where she has lived and worked since – Panajachel, Guatemala. Her studio at the Lake…
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Video Trans Americas
Downey
The idea for Video Trans Americas struck Downey as a kind of epiphany in New York. As a result, he went in search of his roots, after having lived and…
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Vila Maria
Dakić in collaboration with Roger Avanzi, the performers of the Unidos de Vila Maria Samba School and the photographer Egbert Trogemann
Danica Dakić often starts to work with an encounter or…
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Violencia
Carlos Romero
Similarly to other artists from his generation, like Edgardo Antonio Vigo and León Ferrari, Juan Carlos Romero conceived his practice – since his beginnings in the 1920s – as…
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Wall, Work, Workshop. The São Paulo Drawing
Perjovschi
Just as characters are reduced to schematic lines, seemingly complex ideas find a simplified form in Dan Perjovschi’s drawings. Lacking the rhetorical or visual flourishes that often adorn political and…
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Wonderland
AltIndere
Over the past two decades, Halil Altındere’s work has collided time and again with the rapidly changing political and social reality of Turkey. In a project made for the 5th…
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Ymá Nhandehetama
Queiroz, Almires Martins and Marcelo Rodrigues
Almires Martins is Guarani. He was once a fieldworker and a sugar cane cutter at sugar and alcohol factories. Martins also worked for the Curro…
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Zona de tensão
Jr. Organised by Marcio Harum
Strongly influenced by the scale of the city, some of the works by Hudinilson Jr. (1957–2013) in Zona de tensão [Tension Zone] are in line with…
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