Adama Delphine Fawundu in "São Paulo Biennial Announces its Artists: See the Complete List"

“The conceptual team was inspired by bird migration patterns as a methodological guide for selecting participants,” according to the press release. “These patterns include the red-tailed hawk’s journey between the Americas, the ruff’s flight between Central Asia and North Africa, and the Arctic tern’s long polar routes. These birds’ precise cross-continental and cross-climate zone trajectories serve as a metaphor for curatorship itself: like birds, we carry memories, experiences, and languages across borders. We migrate not only out of necessity but also as a form of continuous transformation.”

While most of the biennial takes place in Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in the magnificent Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, Brazil, there will also be five artists featured in the “Tributaries” program at the Casa do Povo cultural center in São Paulo.

The title for this iteration of the biennial is derived from the poem “Da calmae do silêncio” [Of Calm and Silence] by Conceição Evaristo. The architectural and exhibition design is by Gisele de Paula and Tiago Guimarães.

The Artists

Adama Delphine Fawundu
b. New York, 1971. Lives in New York.