The conviction of the curatorial team of the 31st Bienal is that art can offer encounters with experiences and emotions that are not present in most analyses of human life. If individuals or groups within a society can recognise, through art, the things that they cannot acknowledge through other means, then they might be empowered to transform themselves in unpredictable ways. The hope of the 31st Bienal is that it can conjure these things into existence through artistic acts of will. Perhaps this is, in the end, the core function of art both historically and today.
AC/E will be collaborating in this edition giving support to the Spanish artist invited to participate.