In the accompanying video, Michael Kurcfeld explores the 2024 Venice Biennale and interviews curator Adriano Pedrosa about the outsider impulses behind the selections and themes for this year’s festival. This year’s designated curator, Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, invited over 330 artists, a record number, and predominantly from the Global South. His effort appears more as a project of addressing neglect and erasure than that of burnishing existing laurels and reputations. (Note: If a current project succeeds, the next Biennale will see the launch of Papua New Guinea’s own pavilion.) In a sense, the exhibition transcends Western judgment, as an exuberant assembly of self-sustaining, self-justifying, self-sanctifying work.

Source: New York Times August 02, 2024 14:37 UTC