MAIA BIENNIAL 21 — ÁGORA

  • Luís Sousa Teixeira

When does the journey commence? — When we leave one place to another? [the first step into the street, the car, the bus, the train...] — Is it at the point of conception? [in a written notebook, a browser's bookmark filled with intentions, iterations, possibilities...] — Or is it when the desire to do it arises? The journey begins. [we open the book] The production team gathers to think about the execution of the contemporary art biennial. [we turn the pages] It traverses the labyrinthic halls of the forum, walks to the park, and continues through the city streets, observing all the artistic interventions on the map. The sun sets. [we close the book] A transmutable geography of relations between 72 creators and artistic collectives. A comunity. Multiple possibilities. The city landscapes. Past. Present. Future. An archive. A book: a journey.