Fundación Paiz has announced the full programme of the 23rd edition of Paiz Art Biennial, scheduled to run from 13 – 30 July 2023.
Titled bebí palabras sumergidas en sueños (I drank words immersed in dreams), a verse in Guatemalan writer Maya Cú’s poem Nací mujer (I Was Born a Woman), the Biennial is curated by Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig and Juan Canela, who were inspired by Cú’s writing that explores identity and establishes a feminine genealogy as well as a voice of resistance. It engages with the ideas of movement, community, territoriality, landscape and nature and seeks to imagine a future of lives in common.
A total of 131 artworks by 30 artists and collectives will unfold in five venues in Guatemala City and Antigua Guatemala. The complete exhibition programme includes:
Guatemala City:
Centro Cultural de España: Marilyn Boror Bor (Guatemala), Josué Castro (Guatemala), Fina Miralles (Spain), Eliazar Ortiz Roa (Dominican Republic), Itziar Okariz (Spain), Juana Valdés (Cuba-US), Martín Wannam (Guatemala-US); Centro Cultural Municipal AAI: Carolina Alvarado (Mexico-Guatemala), Lourdes de la Riva (Guatemala), Yavheni de León (Guatemala), Verónica Navas González (Costa Rica), Duen Neka’hen Sacchi (Argentina), Risseth Yangüez Singh (Panamá); Galería Portal: La Nueva Cultura Material – Bryan Castro and Valeria Leiva (Guatemala); Sallisa Rosa (Brazil), Ix Shells (Panama)
Antigua Guatemala:
Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española: Minia Biabiany (Guadalupe), Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang (Guatemala-US), Roberto Escobar Raguay (Guatemala), Adler Guerrier (Haití-US), Julieth Morales (Colombia), Collective Tz’aqaat – Cheen (Cortez) and Manuel Chavajay (Guatemala), Collective Tz´aqol – Victor Manuel Barillas y Marta Tuyuc (Guatemala); La Nueva Fábrica: Margarita Azurdia (Guatemala), Minia Biabiany (Guadalupe), Marilyn Boror Bor (Guatemala), Laia Estruch (Spain), Collective Ixqcrear – Elena Caal Hub, Ixmukane Quib Caal and Ixmayab’ Quib Caal (Guatemala), Ana Mendieta (Cuba-US), Fina Miralles (Spain), Helen Mirra (US), María Thereza Negreiros (Brazil-Colombia), Duen Neka’hen Sacchi (Argentina), Juana Valdes (Cuba-US), Cecilia Vicuña (Chile)
An educational programme titled ‘Shared Knowledge’ has accompanied the Biennial since 30 March to bring the exhibition to the broader public.
