The 2nd Bienal das Amazônias will open to the public on August 27th, 2025, in Belém (PA, Brazil), under the curatorial concept Green-Distance. The exhibition, featuring works by 74 artists and collectives from eight Pan-Amazonian and Caribbean countries, will remain open until November 30th, with free admission.
This edition presents a constellation of artistic practices that span territories, dreams, memories, languages, and listening. The curatorial team is led by Manuela Moscoso (chief curator), together with Sara Garzón (associate curator), Jean da Silva (co-curator of the public program), and Mónica Amieva (pedagogical curator).
The curatorial starting point was the expression “green-distance”, taken from the novel Verde Vagomundo by Pará-born writer Benedicto Monteiro. “Distance is not absence. It is matter. It is a form of relation that preserves
rather than isolates, that allows for care without domination and co-presence without fusion,” she explains.
“Green-distance is also an ethics of listening — attentiveness to what resists translation, to what moves between bodies and worlds without being captured.” This approach shapes the entire exhibition, articulated around three sensitive forces — dreams, memory, and accent — already present in different ways in the artists’ practices.
The 2nd Bienal das Amazônias – Green-Distance is part of the France-Brazil Season 2025, which supports artists from the French overseas territories.
August 27 – November 30, 2025
CCBA – Rua Manoel Barata, 400 – Belém, PA
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