13th Gwangju Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning. Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall. Courtesy the Gwangju Biennale Foundation
At the outset of a new age of cognitive capitalism, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, the 13th edition of the Gwangju Biennale, moves beyond the false universalisms of Western modernity to ask after the true nature of intelligence. Engaging both local histories of uprising and shamanism and our shared planetary trauma, artistic directors Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala (interviewed by TANK in this issue) have brought together artists and thinkers whose work complicates easy distinctions between embodied, technological and spiritual ways of knowing. Neurobiology, philosophy, ancestral knowledge and indigenous cosmologies are together enlisted to engender the plural perspective necessary for our communal survival. ◉
Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning will open on 1 April.
Candice Lin, Papaver Somniferum (Tapestry), Jacquard woven tapestry, 91.4 × 127 cm. Courtesy the artistOpposite, Sahej Rahal, Missing Pages, 2020, ink, pigment, acrylic & watercolour on paper. Courtesy the artist and Chatterjee & Lal
Cian Dayrit, A Rare Colorized Image of Institutional Assimilation, 2018, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist
Cian Dayrit, Colonial Measure, 2019, digital print, embroidery and objects on textile. Courtesy the artistA
Jumaadi, The Diary of Sweet Potato, 2019, pigment on cloth, 150 × 285 cm. Courtesy the artistOpposite, Sangho Lee, Long for Korean Reunification, 2014, acrylic on fabric, 274 × 179 cm. Courtesy the artist
Tishan Hsu, Double Bind, 1989, silkscreen ink on Mylar, Plexiglas, glass, plywood, porcelain ceramic tile, stainless steel, rubber, nylon, acrylic, 194 × 123 × 156 cm (76 1/4 × 48 1/2 × 61 1/4 in. Courtesy the artist, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New YorkOpposite, Zofia Rydet, from the World of Feelings and Imagination cycle. Phantoms, 1975–1979, gelatin silver hand print. Courtesy Raster Gallery, Warsaw
Joungki Min, Rumor (1), 1980, oil on canvas, 130 × 162cm