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10 photos showing the art displays at Liverpool Biennial 2023
Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s biggest free festival for contemporary visual art and it’s returning to the city this weekend.
The exhibitions are already on display and are centred around the themes of catastrophe and aliveness and will explore the varied ways in which living and being are manifested. This year’s festival will run from June 10 to September 17.
The title for the visual arts event is ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’ and will be curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa with director Sam Lackey and the team at the Liverpool Biennial. The festival hopes to address the history and temperament of Liverpool in a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge.
More than 30 artists and collectives will take part in the 12th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, including Albert Ibokwe Khoza, Brook Andrew, Eleng Luluan, Julien Creuzet, Nicholas Galanin, Raisa Kabir and Torkwase Dyson.
Sam Lackey, director of Liverpool Biennial, said: “I am excited to bring the spirit of uMoya to the city of Liverpool for our 12th edition in 2023, our 25th anniversary year. At this moment of global instability, the vision and experience of our curator, Khanyisile Mbongwa brings a perspective of historic acknowledgement that ultimately proposes alternative futures for our world.
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New and existing artworks will be unveiled across the city at galleries including the Bluecoat, FACT Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery, Tate Liverpool and Victoria Gallery and Museum. Other unexpected spaces will be announced in spring 2023.
All exhibitions are visually arresting and thought provoking and are certainly illuminated by the themes of the festival. As you can see in the pictures below, there is enormous talent on display and hopefully a little something for everyone.
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A large neon work combining indigenous languages by artist Brook Andrew on the Tobacco Warehouse at Stanley Dock
(Image: Liverpool Echo)Torkwase Dyson’s abstract work ‘Liquid a Place’ in Tate Liverpool
(Image: Liverpool Echo)A mural depicting a stilt walker and other Carnival players by artist Rudy Loewe at Liverpool One shopping centre
(Image: Liverpool Echo)A 1:1 scale 18th century plan of the Brooks slave ship made from soil and seeds by artist Binta Diaw at Tobacco Warehouse
(Image: Liverpool Echo)A sculpture taking the form of a giant metal vessel by indigenous Taiwanese artist Eleng Luluan at Princes Dock
(Image: Liverpool Echo)Edgar Calel’s work ‘The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge’
(Image: Liverpool Echo)Guadalupe Maravilla’s Disease Thrower sculpture
(Image: Liverpool Echo)An installation of cast-bronze baskets by artist Nicholas Galanin at St John’s Gardens
(Image: Liverpool Echo)Shannon Alonzo works on her mural entitled ‘Mangroves’ in the Cotton Exchange
(Image: Liverpool Echo)Isa do Rosario’s exhibits in the Tate Liverpool
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