so it's the 8th time i go visit the bienal already. somehow i do not get tired of it. i've been doing a lot of guided visits of it, that's mostly why. well, according to the curator, luiz pérez-oramas, we're supposed to construct our own constellations/connections among artists and travel through the exhibition according to our theme. all of it dialogues with the "imminence of poetics" title of it. it begs the question and makes you think and participate actively as to how things relate to each other, what do i get out of it, how does this work for me. it's extremely productive and engaging.
other than 12 themes for constellations that oramas suggests/gives, he encourages visitors to make up their own, as long as they're intellectually and responsibly justified. so this time, i wrote my own text and selected my own artists to go with my theme.
portuguese:
invenção da linguagem enquanto linguagem é seu mundo.
esses mundos que se formaram durante um processo extenso e às vezes lento, tanto que os sentimos concretizados.
suas histórias, suas narrativas, sua construção do passado.
percepção.
uma forma de expressão que só sai nesse formato, só seu, que você acredita que inventou.
uma originalidade natural e até certo ponto, ingênua, não forçada. mas quando esses lugares são lidos, expostos, falados em voz alta, é que percebe-se o quanto se interconectam.
o quanto ecoam, repetem.
uma voz uníssona mas com suas individualidades.
seus acentos, trejeitos, respirações e pausas na fala. mas uníssona enquanto invenção e simplicidade rica de pensamento.
english:
invention of language while language is their world.
these worlds that have formed themselves in an extensive, sometimes slow, process, so much that we feel the worlds as concrete (true, factual).
their stories, their narratives, their construction of the past.
perception.
a form of expression that can only be in this format, only theirs, that they believe they have invented.
a natural originality and to some extent, naiive, not forced. but when these places are read, exposed, said out loud, is that we notice how much they connect.
how much they echo each other, repeat.
a unison voice but with their individualities.
their accents, tweaks, breaths and pauses in their talk. but unison as far as invention and rich simplicity of thought.
artists:
nicolas paris
kirsten pieroth
eduardo stupía
juan luis martinez
odires mlaszhlo
arthur bispo do rosário
michel aubry
sandra vasquez de la horra
eduardo berliner
christian vinck
fernand deligny
link for the bienal: http://www.bienal.org.br/
