You walk through the exhibition.
You see a series of beautiful photographs.
You read the corresponding, somewhat didactic texts.
You engage with the work.
To your surprise, you enjoy the work.
The beauty of the images.
Then…
Then you see this:
Pity. I was enjoying the work until then.
As the old adage goes: a picture is worth a 1,000 words.
Didacticism is worth 1: yawn.
Posted in Interviews and Reviews
Tagged Allan Sekula, Image, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Bienal, Text
Posted in Interviews and Reviews
Tagged Biennial, Brazil, drawing, Exhibition, Installation, Sao Paulo, Video
Inside. On the opening day of the 29th Bienal de São Paulo and artists, curators, gallerists, and critics are manically hopping about from work to work.
Meanwhile.
Outside, in the shade of Oscar Niemeyer’s Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, construction workers take a lunch time nap. Or is this a performance?
Temporary Person Passing Through 
