The 36th Bienal de São Paulo is titled Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice. It takes its name from a poem by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo titled Da calma e do silêncio (Of Calm and Silence). The 1990 poem was published in the Cadernos Negros (Black Notebooks) series, an ongoing publication founded in São Paulo in the late 1970s that promotes and preserves African diasporic literature in Brazil, a country where this kind of literature has been historically marginalised in mainstream publishing houses.

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