The 15th edition of the Lyon Biennale surprised its audience by moving to its new location at the former Fagor factory in Gerland.
The exhibition, which will be held between September 2019 and January 2020, includes exhibits and works of art by 50 international artists and attracts 284 thousand visitors.
The exhibition is held under the slogan "When water meets other water", the title of a poem by the American writer Raymond Carver, and the phrase was chosen because of its conformity with the nature of the city of Lyon, which divides the geographical features of the Rhone and Alsun intertwined with the history of the city and its policy, economy and social nature of the people People and goods to and from.
The two rivers also play a role in shaping the relations of the inhabitants of the city and determine the nature of their relationship to their environment and the city's riches above the land, such as animals and plants and under them, such as metals.
One of the highlights of the exhibition, held every two years, is a piece belonging to the Italian Nico Vecellari, which reflects the artist's reflections on nature and its relationship to religious beliefs, and how nature has changed with the influence of modern societies.
It also features a robotic show of Mexican Fernando Palma Rodriguez, a baby-free body clothing with a halo pulled from the floor to the ceiling in a coordinated and organized movement. The show reflects a surreal dance in which 43 children evaporate between the earth and paradise, in a way that focuses on the way they were destroyed. Capitalism, in his view, is the peoples that have emigrated and become citizens of places of ghosts.
In the same context, we see a model of the bodies without faces, the symbol of identity, and represents the factory workers or fields, and refers in particular to the revolutions of silk workers in Lyon in 1831, 1834 and 1848, a struggle form the political and social history of the city, which finds echoes in the factory Fagor himself.
One of the most beautiful contents of the exhibition is a masterpiece by the Thai artist Panavan Udnami, which combines traditional Thai and architectural art with Buddhist beliefs, blending nature and industry, spirituality and destruction, and explores the phenomenon of time, loss, ruin and death.
The factory was built in 1945 and closed in 2015, leaving an area of 29 thousand square meters free occupied by the exhibition Biennale in this session.