Wang Tuo will participate in 16th Gwangju Biennale “You Must Change Your Life”.
“The title of the 16th edition is the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem Archaic Torso of Apollo: “You must change your life”—a call at once urgent yet open, forceful yet generous. The Biennale approaches change as a continuous practice through which bodies and perceptions are reorganized. Though change is often most apparent in moments of rupture, it also emerges through the gradual accumulation of everyday practices that expand our capacity to affect—and to be affected.
The Biennale unfolds as a journey across scales—from the molecular to the cosmic, from intimate gestures and familiar bonds to social formations and resonances across worlds. Artists approach change through multiple registers: from the molecular poetics of Nina Canell to the existential weight of late-socialist life choices in Wang Jiahao’s paintings; from Rafik Greiss’s invocation of Sufi transcendence through breath, movement, and repetition, to practices that seek new ways of inhabiting body, history, and relations with others.” —16th Gwangju Biennale
Curators: Artistic Director Ho Tzu Nyen together with curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, and Brian Kuan Wood, alongside assistant curators Lee Yein and Koyuri Sato
Venue: Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, South Korea (111 Biennale-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61104, South Korea)
Image courtesy of Gwangju Biennale.