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Home News Open Meeting São Paulo

5 Jan 2014

Open Meeting São Paulo


On November 30, 2013, Casa do Povo hosted the 31st Bienal Open Meeting. This five-storey modernist house in Bom Retiro, São Paulo, has been in activity for over sixty years. The former headquarters of the vanguard school Scholem Aleichem and the experimental theater troupe TAIB, the house was a hub of resistance during the dictatorship and remains to this day a hive of living memories of São Paulo capital.


For a critical report, see:


Of the Many Possible Worlds, by Dani Gutfreund.

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Installation view of Terra viva by Marlene Almeida during the 36th Bienal de São Paulo© Natt Fejfar / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
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Uma pessoa com cabelo curto e encaracolado, vestindo uma camisa branca, um colete estampado e calças largas escuras, está em meio a uma instalação de arte. A instalação apresenta inúmeras hastes de metal escuras e retorcidas, semelhantes a raízes ou galhos, que cobrem o chão e se elevam ao redor da pessoa. Cortinas altas, de cor laranja claro, estão ao fundo.
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From left to right: Rado Ištok, Mayara Carvalho, Amanda Carneiro, Ryan Inouye, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Ana Salazar Herrera, Amanda Tavares, Raphael Fonseca, and Léuli Eshrāghi, the curatorial team of the 37th Bienal de São Paulo.© Camila Tuon / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
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