Nicolas Bourriaud is a curator, writer, and founder of the curatorial cooperative Radicants. He last wrote for Spike on Cecilia Alemani’s main exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale, “The Milk of Dreams.”
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.
Curator Nicolas Bourriaud argues that the current Venice Biennale is not as post-human as you might think.