15th Gwangju Biennale

For its 30th anniversary, the 15th Gwangju Biennale gathers 72 artists from 30 countries; PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century is an attempt to map the complexity of the contemporary world. Conflictual borders, anti-migration walls, confinement, social distance, segregation policies... These seemingly dissimilar topics share a common point, which is space, and its political organization. The main effect of climate change is the apparition of a new topology, a new world map in which carbon dioxide and urban life, desertification and migration, deforestation and social struggles, destruction of animal ecosystems and vegetal invasions, all have become brutally interconnected. PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century is an operatic exhibition about the space we inhabit, from our housing to the human occupation of the planet. And as landscapes are also soundscapes, the exhibition is built as a narrative connecting musical and visual forms.