Luleåbiennalen 2020 | María Iñigo Clavo – Traces, Signs and Symptoms of the Untranslatable

Luleå Biennial 2020:
Time on Earth
21.11.2020~14.2.2020

Information regarding Covid-19

Last chance The Luleå Biennial 2020: Time on Earth

Wednesday February 10, 16~20 and Saturday February 13–Sunday February 14, 12~16
Galleri Syster is open. Group show with Augusta Strömberg, Susanna Jablonski and Ana Vaz.

Thursday February 11–Sunday February 14, 12~16
Havremagasinet länskonsthall in Bodenis open. Group show with Beatrice Gibson, Susanna Jablonski, Birgitta Linhart, Fathia Mohidin, Charlotte Posenenske, Tommy Tommie and Danae Valenza.

Saturday February 13–Sunday February 14, 14~18
The former prison Vita Duvan is open with an electro acoustic installation by Maria W Horn.

Saturday February 13, 15~19
The artist Markus Öhrn and the poet David Väyrynens sound installation "Bikt" is exhibited on the ice by Residensgatan in Luleå. Listen to older generations of Tornedal women and their testimonies.

Book your visit via Billetto. Drop in is possible as far as space allows.

For those of you who do not have the opportunity to physically visit the Luleå Biennale on site, a radio show including artist talks, sound works and specially written essays will be on stream on Saturday February 13–Sunday February 14. Visit our radio page here.

The exhibitions at Norrbotten's Museum, Luleå konsthall, Välkommaskolan in Malmberget and the Silver Museum are unfortunatly closed.

2018~2021

Lulu is how Luleå first appeared in writing in 1327, a name of Sami origin that can be translated as “Eastern Water”. This is the title of the Luleå Biennial’s journal, fiirst published in conjunction with the Luleå Biennial 2018. For this years edition of the biennial readers are offered different points of entry to the biennial’s overall theme: realism today. The Lulu journal is made by the biennial’s artistic and invited guest editors. It is published here on the biennial’s website and can be downloaded for printing. Design: Aron Kullander-Östling & Stina Löfgren.

ISSN: 2003~1254

2020

María Iñigo Clavo – Traces, Signs and Symptoms of the Untranslatable

Is it possible to decolonize Western methodologies? Theory is struggling to find new words, tools, methodological frames, and grammar to overcome the colonial nature of our knowledge systems. Can we begin to learn ways of knowing, and of coexistence, that accept the untranslatable, the uncertain and the unknowable? Through a reflection on artworks by Aage Gaup, Kipwani Kiwanga and Hanna Ljungh, and an emphasis on indigenous knowledge, Iñigo Clavo prompts us to widen the space of the unthinkable, and allow for hybridities, contaminations, influences, mutual inspirations, appropriations and impurities while establishing a new set of de-colonial world views.

María Iñigo Clavo is a researcher, curator, and artist with a PhD in Fine Arts. She is a professor at the Open University of Catalonia and co-founder of the independent research group “Peninsula. Colonial processes and artistic and curatorial practices” in collaboration with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Her research focuses on colonial power relationships, museum and gallery studies, and art in Latin America with special attention to Brazil.