Joining dozens of other art enthusiasts in the 15th Havana Biennial both experts expounded on the organization of such events by presenting the conference entitled “From the Encyclopedic Palace to The Milk of Dreams”, at the National Museum of Fine Arts here.

Alemani and Gioni lectured on their vision, which favors a heterogeneous, diverse and inclusive manner of fostering participation by artists beyond enclosed academic spaces.

They both agreed on giving more space to those capable of expressing their art in a unique, creative way, stemming from diversity of knowledge, materials and artistic visions. Alemani stressed the need to give more weight to art made by women, representatives of different generations, continents, backgrounds and aesthetic tastes.

In her curatorship of the Venice Biennale (2022), entitled The Milk of Dreams, the Italian curator based herself on the work of the British artist Leonora Carrington.

In Venice 2022, Alamani gave prominence to works that expressed the metamorphosis of bodies, the relationship between individuals and technologies, and the connection between bodies and the earth.

To Alemani and Gioni there a necessary link in the way of organizing a Biennial and social processes and the connections with current artistic practices.

The theoretical section of the Havana Biennial is developing hand in hand with the 26th edition of the Week of Italian Culture in Cuba.

The 15th Havana Biennial, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2024, is hosting more than 300 participants from different continents, 61 percent of them from the so-called Global South, under the premise of Shared Horizons.

The Biennial will run until February 28, 2025, consolidating itself as a fundamental platform for artistic collaboration, co-creation, intercultural dialogue and social transformation through art.

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