Choreographies of the Impossible, Luanda Itinerancy
View and detail of Habitar el color. Photos: Sander Telo / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.
Instituto Guimarães Rosa
The Luanda Itinerancy is based on the 35th Bienal de São Paulo , which took place in 2023. It’s a collaboration between the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and the Instituto Guimarães Rosa, promoting cultural dialogues between Brazil and Angola.
Bunga showed a site-specific installation that questions the transience of social and architectural structures, inviting the public to interact with the space in a sensory way.
The exhibition xplores the complexity and urgency of the contemporary world by addressing social, political and cultural transformation. The curators seek to tension the spaces between the possible and the impossible, the visible and the invisible, the real and the imaginary, highlighting multiple issues and perspectives in a poetic way. Choreography, understood as a set of body-centered movements that defy limits, considers diverse trajectories and areas of activity, which creates strategies to face institutional and curatorial challenges.
For the curators, it has always been crucial for the exhibition to reach cities other than São Paulo. According to them, “the debates proposed by the 35th Bienal cross countless territories around the world, so the fact that the choreographies of the impossible are not restricted to the Bienal Pavilion is extremely important for the work carried out”.
PROCESS
Video: Stelio Macedo / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.
Curators: Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes and Manuel Borja-Villel
2024. Luanda, Angola.
