SITE Santa Fe Announces Theme and Artist List for 13th International Biennial

SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico has announced the theme and artist list for the upcoming 13th International Biennial, which will open next June.

The exhibition’s curator, Ekow Eshun, has chosen the title “There Are Other Worlds,” which posits that “other worlds already exist within the one we inhabit—whether they are hidden in plain sight, found in refusal of the status quo, or brought into being through acts of imagination,” according to a release.

Additionally, the exhibition will feature three sections: “Worlds Beyond,” which is partially informed by the Transcendental Painting Group; “World in Common,” which will look at how artists form community and kinship; and “Worlds Alive,” which looks at the interdependence between humans, animals, and plants.

More than 40 artists will exhibit in the International, which will be staged at SITE Santa Fe and at other venues around Santa Fe. Eshun has tapped Edgar Arceneaux, Firelei Báez, Raven Chacon, Lotus L. Kang, and Cauleen Smith to make new commissions for the exhibition.

Other artists who will feature in the exhibition include John Akomfrah, Frank Bowling, Olafur Elaisson, Jeffrey Gibson, Nan Goldin, Delcy Morelos, Eamon Ore-Giron, Rose Simpson, and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra.

In a statement, Eshun said, “Uniting these practices is a shared sense that the world is never singular or fixed, but continually reshaped by how we perceive, imagine, and relate to one another. There Are Other Worlds invites us to look beyond existing realities to consider how alternative ways of being might come into existence.”

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