15/04/2024
“FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE”
If for the Venice Art Biennale 2022 the ‘different’ was the female, or non-binary artist, the theme of the 2024 edition will be the ‘diverse’ in the sense of foreigner, with a focus on the artist who has traveled from South to North. For the first time in the history of the Venice Biennale the curator is a Latin American, while the attention is strongly on Africa and Asia.
From April 20th until November 24th Venice will be more international than ever thanks to FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE. This is the theme chosen by Adriano Pedrosa, the Brazilian curator for this 60th edition.
Quoting Adriano Pedrosa’s words: «The backdrop for the work is a world rife with multiple crises concerning the movement and existence of people across countries, nations, territories, and borders, which reflect the perils and pitfalls of language, translation, and ethnicity, expressing differences and disparities conditioned by identity, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, wealth, and freedom. In this landscape, the phrase Foreigners Everywhere has (at least) a dual meaning. Wherever you go and wherever you are you will always encounter foreigners—they/we are everywhere. Secondly, that no matter where you find yourself, you are always, truly, and deep down inside, a foreigner».
The curator also states: «The Biennale Arte 2024 will focus on artists who are themselves foreigners, immigrants, expatriates, diasporic, émigrés, exiled, and refugees—especially those who have moved between the Global South and the Global North». There will be two major sections dedicated to new and old works, a Contemporary and a Historical nucleus. This second area will aim at investigating the history of modernism beyond Europe and North America.
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