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Festivals of 2024: Busan Biennale

Festivals of 2024: Busan Biennale
Installation view of YUN SUKNAM’s Women of Resistance, 2020-23, color pigment on Hanji, pencil on paper, dimensions variable. Courtesy Busan Biennale.

For the Busan Biennale 2024, titled “Seeing in the Dark,” co-curators Vera Mey and Philippe Pirotte explored alternative ideas of darkness and enlightenment, drawing on concepts from Buddhism to the histories of “pirate utopias”—alternative, anarchist communities that predate European modernity.