A world of endless promise - Manifesto of Fragility

A World of Endless Promise assembles a host of creative practices by 88 artists from 39 countries that are spread across twelve locations spanning several centuries of Lyon’s rich history.

Conceived as a collective statement, authored through word, image, sound and movement, it calls on a community of resilient voices to draft a manifesto for a world that is blamelessly fragile. The Biennale is structured around three distinct yet inter-connected layers, where fragility and resistance are explored through the lens of the individual, the city, and the world respectively.

Whether through the issues they tackle, or the materials they use, these artists’ diverse approaches represent varied understandings of our current state of global uncertainty and have the potential to inform our thinking about generative paths of resistance. In recognizing that artists, past and present, are often among the most vulnerable voices in our societies, the exhibition also brings together works of art and objects spanning millennia that bare their scars and deformities, share forgotten accounts of turmoil, and draw attention to the indelible traces of time. And it is exactly there, at the heart of their fragility, that the promise of a truly changed world begins.

Sommaire

Director’s Note
Isabelle Bertolotti

Curators’ Foreword
Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath

Venues

Sites of Interest

Artists

The partners of the 16th Biennale of Lyon

Acknowledgements from the Biennale

The Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art Team

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon Team

Colophon