Hao Jingban will participate in 36th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil.
“The curatorial team adopted bird migration patterns as a methodological guide for selecting participants. These patterns include the red-tailed hawk’s journey between the Americas, the ruff’s flight between Central Asia and North Africa, and the Arctic tern’s long polar routes. These birds’ precise cross-continental and cross-climate zone trajectories serve as a metaphor for curatorship itself: like birds, we carry memories, experiences, and languages across borders. We migrate not only out of necessity but also as a form of continuous transformation.
“This methodological process helped us avoid classifications based on nation-states and borders. By studying birds’ navigation skills, their impulse to migrate across land and water, their survival instincts, their expanded sense of space and time, and their urgency and agency, we were able to engage with artistic practices in different geographic regions while reflecting on the meaning of bringing humanity together in the context of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo,” says Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.” – 36th Bienal de São Paulo
Chief curator: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung / Co-curators: Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza / Co-curator at large: Keyna Eleison
Venue: Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion (Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, s.n. Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
Image courtesy of 36th Bienal de São Paulo.