Art biennales are typically showy affairs , but asThe Guardianreports , the organizers of theBiennale de La Bichewant to make a less showy feeling . The art carnival — which opened earlier this month , on January 6 — is billed as the “ populace ’s small contemporary art biennale , ” as it ’s held on a lilliputian , evaporate island off the seacoast of Guadeloupe in the southerly Caribbean Sea . uprise ocean levels will eventually swallow the land , and the art will fall into the ocean .
Founders and curators Alex Urso and Maess Anand raise 14 participate artists , who all donate lowly works to the biennale . According to Artnet , Urso and Anand packed the art into a suitcase , flew it to the Caribbean ( without purchase policy ) , and displayed it in a makeshift “ gallery”—an abandoned wooden hut on the island . They did n’t even need permission to use the speck of land , named Ilet La Biche ; topical anaesthetic told Urso “ there was no point , ” he order .
The biennale is titledIn a country of . “ This sentence , suspended and imprecise , wants to be a prompting , an incentive to savvy the essence of the island as a geographically isolated place , but above all , a spot distant from all the limits and conventions of the contemporary prowess system , ” Biennale de La Biche ’s website explain . “ Moreover , the location is a transitory position , because it is slowly go away : due to the rising sea levels , the island is in fact bit by bit submerging , and in a few decades , it is destine to vanish . ”
Biennale de La Biche may be understand as a political statement about global heating , but Urso tells Artnet that his primary destination is for the event to convey themes like fleetingness and uncertainty , and " to push all the artists to somehow to tie in to the theme of an unknown situation . ”
There ’s no way to know whether anyone ’s in reality visiting Biennale de La Biche , as Urso and Anand simply give the art there and traveled back to their habitation country , Poland . However , local artists in Guadeloupe have reportedly expressed interest in the event , and Urso and Anand are already tentatively planning a follow - up biennale , to be held two long time from now .
Check out some photos of Ilet La Biche below , orvisit Biennale de La Biche ’s websitefor visiting info .
[ h / tThe Guardian ]
