NOV 9
MAR 31, 2024
Led by artist-curator and e-flux cofounder Anton Vidokle, with a curatorial team of Zairong Xiang, Hallie Ayres, and. Trevor Paglen’s large-scale installation the spherical (2013) and the geometrically shaped series (2015–18) marked his decade-long project to design a satellite as an art object and launch it into space—which he did in late 2018. Yin-Ju Chen’s commissioned video work (2023) offers an elegy after her mother’s death, told through astrological figures. Throughout, the Biennale drew interconnections between different worldviews and art forms. Kidlat Tahimik’s installation (2021–22), comprising wood-carvings and tapestries, proposed a form of indigenous cinema that promotes cultural mythologies celebrating cooperation with nature rather than figures of international consumerism.
