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Review | Water-themed Shanghai Biennale feels diluted by satellite art shows away from the main venue
Irrigation, menstruation, immersion - Bodies of Water, the main exhibition at the 13th Shanghai Biennale, takes a wide-ranging view of its theme
The show is a great introduction to the work of younger, less well known artists
By:Zheng Qian |
From:english.eastday.com | 2021-04-19 15:04
Initiated last November as a nine-month extended program, the 13th Shanghai Biennale is now operating at a crescendo with the third phase exhibition having kicked off on April 16.
(Concept image for the 13th Shanghai Biennale by Paula Vilaplana de Miguel)
Themed “Bodies of Water,” the biennale looks into the liquid nature of human, more-than-human, and post-human bodies, and into the fluid ways in which they infiltrate, constitute, and relate to one another. It explores the historic and contemporary tensions, the over and under-explored possibilities, and the forms of consensual, dissident, and alternative forms of being that are made possible by these metaphorical bodies of water.
The 13th Shanghai Biennale announces participants for main exhibition
Feliciano Centurión, Untitled, 1994, oil on canvas, 164 x 217 cm. Private Collection.
SHANGHAI
.- The Power Station of Art announced the culmination of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. Its main exhibition PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION opens on April 17, 2021, with 64 participating artists presenting projects, including 33 new commissions, presented at the PSA and other venues across Shanghai.
To challenge the traditional biennale format and explore the participant-public divide, the Biennale is unfolding over the course of nine months as an in crescendo project. It began in November 2020 with PHASE 01: A WET-RUN REHEARSAL, a five-day inaugural program, and was followed by PHASE 02: AN ECOSYSTEM OF ALLIANCES, five months of activity and programing. This allowed the artists, thinkers and curators involved in the Biennale to develop their work in close collaboration with the City of Shanghai, its people