NICOLAS BOURRIAUD is a curator, writer, and founder of the curatorial cooperative Radicants. He has reviewed the Venice Biennale for Spike since 2013.
As the 61st edition enters its last months, a longtime art-world thinker sizes up its main exhibition and maps an orthodoxy by now entrenched. Has yesterday’s disruption become today’s mainstream?
Where the politics of the stranger might invent radical futures from outsider-art forms, Adriano Pedrosa’s exhibition offers little more than a safe space for essentializing folklore.
Perhaps Cecilia Alemani’s Venice Biennale is not as post-human as you might think.
