The 35th Bienal de São Paulo, titled ‘Choreographies of the Impossible’, the curatorial proposal of Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes and Manuel Borja-Villel, starts tomorrow, and WAAU is covering this huge event, on display until December 10th.

The artists Aline Motta, Ana Pi & Taata Kwa Nkisi Mutá Imê, Anna Boghiguian, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Ayrson Heráclito & Tiganá Santana, Charles White, Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira, Elizabeth Catlett, Eustáquio Neves, Inaicyra Falcão, Januário Jano, Katherine Dunham, Leilah Weinraub, Luiz de Abreu, M’barek Bouhchichi, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs, Marlon Riggs, Nadal Walcot, Raquel Lima, Ricardo Aleixo, Sarah Maldoror, Senga Nengudi, Sidney Amaral, Ventura Profana, Wifredo Lam, Will Rawls, Yto Barrada, the movement Cozinha Ocupação 9 de Julho – MSTC, and the Kizomba Design Museum project are some of the highlights of this fair.

This 35th edition proposes a project focusing on the possibility of choreographing the impossible within the impossible. The curatorial team, consisting of Lima, Kilomba, Menezes and Borja-Villel, aims to dismantle hierarchies, ethical and normative procedures that enact institutional devices’ vertical power, value, and violence structures. ‘Choreographies of the Impossible’ enunciate a space of experimentation, embodied by movements capable of transforming what is seemingly non-existent into existent. The team aims to create networks that transcend expansive spatial movement while also addressing redistribution policies and caring towards people, spaces, and territories.

Sources: São Paulo Bienal and Kizomba Design Museum.