11th Berlin Biennale The crack begins within

05 October 2020

11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art The Crack Begins Within

5 September - 1 November 2020

Curators:
María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio

The missing ones

Drawer 1

Dust 2

Broken nose

Piece of self

I hurt

You hurt

Never mind we are muzzled

Only the invisible link will unbind us

For centuries they have failed to see

We dance the same steps

The pace repeats until firmament

There is but one rebound

That towards an unknown

What is restitution

A little truth upon the bone eaten away by shame

Hush these words are harsh

I know we must speak no more smother

that wrath may sway towards the cry of beauty

that staying shut on all fours may

sludge all disorder

In suspension

As the bare-faced comedy acts out the same

scene

The world already wearied a thousand-fold

All children await a new day

All objects murmur the phrase

Resituate! With elegance like a peacock’s feather

Upright

They wait

Asleep

For the rising day

Upright

Motionless in daytime

They wait asleep to be cradled by night

Pélagie Gbaguidi