On September 8, the artist participating in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak, will give a musical performance, followed by a talk with Odette Casamayor and Grace Aneiza Ali.
Kamaal Malak is a multifaceted musician, producer, academic, and researcher whose career spans diverse areas of the music industry. As a bassist and songwriter with the 2x Grammy-winning group Arrested Development, they significantly influenced conscious hip-hop in the early 1990s.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (Matanzas, 1959. Lives in Nashville) creates works that address themes such as history, memory, gender, and religion, investigating the role they play in the formation of identity. Her practice brings together photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance. Campos-Pons has participated in international exhibitions and biennials and has been the subject of solo exhibitions in museums around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), which presented her multimedia show Behold.
This participation is supported by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
Grace Aneiza Ali is a Guyanese-born curator of contemporary art of the Global South, whose work explores the intersections of art and migration. She is currently the appointed Curator for the Engine for Art, Democracy, and Justice (EADJ) at Vanderbilt University and assistant professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University. Her book, Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora, explores the art and migration narratives of women of Guyanese heritage.
Odette Casamayor explores the intersections of identification, diaspora, and Black consciousness as both writer and scholar. A professor of Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she is the author of Utopía, distopía e ingravidez (2013), a critical study of post-Soviet Cuban narratives, and Una casa en los Catskills (2012), a short story collection reflecting on displacement and belonging.
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Musical performance – María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak, followed by a talk with Odette Casamayor
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
September 8, 2025
Monday, 5 pm
Auditorium
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Alvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission