‘It compels us to see the world through the eyes of the previously marginalised,’ India’s Frontline magazine said of the Venice Biennale, curated by Pedrosa under the title Foreigners Everywhere and predominantly featuring art (namely in the form of painting, collage and drawing) made outside the West by 332 artists. The Financial Times agreed: ‘Pedrosa’s thoughtful, serious approach showcases the joys and opportunities, as well as the trauma, of displacement and marvellously balances aesthetic pleasure and politics.’ Yet opinion was far from unanimous: the works on show, The Art Newspaper thought, ‘measured by technical rather [than] representative properties, are, frankly, ropey’; Folha de S.Paulo complained that Pedrosa ‘reduced the artists to slogans’. Pedrosa’s interest in identity will be familiar to visitors of Museu de Arte de São Paulo, where he is director (with an extension into neighbouring premises opening in March), where he uses a different theme every year to programme. This year ‘LGBTQIA+ diversity stories’ encompassed solo shows of work by Francis Bacon, Catherine Opie and Leonilson.