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In a world saturated with images, some, strangely, are lacking. This edition of MOMENTA aims to open up multiple perspectives for experimentation and speculation on the nature, uses, and production of missing images. In Praise of the Missing Image explores both contemporary challenges in relation to the image and the current consequences of the complex dynamics involved in constructing narratives. Which stories are told, how, and by whom?

This publication presents a text by the guest curator, the 22 exhibitions in the Biennale, and an exclusive series of graphic scores by the artist Lou Sheppard. In their original essays, the authors Françoise Vergès and Yaniya Lee enrich and broaden the reflections inherent to Marie-Ann Yemsi’s curatorial proposition: Vergès wonders how to make the narratives of “missing images” heard in the image, and Lee suggests that we move away from representation and, instead, embrace alternative methodologies for liberation.

Guest curator: Marie-Ann Yemsi

Authors: Yaniya Lee, Françoise Vergès, Marie-Ann Yemsi

Languages: French or English

Number of pages: 132

Publication date: 2025

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This publication brings together descriptions of the exhibitions, an essay by Anne Anlin Cheng on the metamorphic potential of “skin consciousness,” an original portfolio of photographs by Chris Curreri, and an essay by curator Ji-Yoon Han that reflects on the notion of the image through the prism of the biennial’s theme.

Curator: Ji-Yoon Han

Authors: Anne Anlin Cheng, Ji-Yoon Han

Languages: English or French

Number of pages: 139

Publication date: 2023

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For its 17th edition, titled Sensing Nature, MOMENTA humbly urges us to consider environmental justice and its intersections with social justice as a matter of sensing and feeling as much as of analysis and grassroots activism. Although science is critically needed—not least to tackle the climate emergency—our planetary assembly of multiplicities also craves forms of knowing, feeling, and doing that create different arrangements of coexistence.

A longing for togetherness—for love—echoes insistently in the exhibitions and in this book, asking us to fathom other possible forms of worldmaking. The artists and authors invite us to forge intimate kinships with nonhuman life-worlds. They propose that we listen to—and observe, smell, touch, speak to—the land, the water, the air not with the aim of distantly understanding, grasping, or exploiting, but to resonate, to vibrate, to be together. Or, perhaps, with no aim at all. They make room for stories that dwell in the blurred boundaries between technology and ancestral wisdoms, weaving in both human and nonhuman modes of knowing. They celebrate that we are in relation with nature, that we are of nature.

Curator: Stefanie Hessler, in collaboration with Camille Georgeson-Usher, Maude Johnson and Himali Singh Soin

Authors: Jen Bervin, Anne-Marie Dubois, Léuli Eshrāghi, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Stefanie Hessler, Maude Johnson, Alexis Rider, Julia Roberge Van Der Donckt, Silverbear, Himali Singh Soin, Joce TwoCrows Tremblay, T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss

Languages: English or French

Number of pages: 168

Publication date: 2021

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Today, mass production of objects is tending to redefine the lines between material things—supposedly inert and passive—and human beings—considered the only subjects endowed with agency. Far from being impermeable to this redefinition, the image is now spreading beyond the two-dimensional space: it is becoming an object in itself. The artists and authors in this book thus explore the universes that are being built between individuals and their material environment, highlighting the reciprocal relations that are formed between subject and object.

Curator: María Wills Londoño, in collaboration with Audrey Genois et Maude Johnson

Contributors: Amanda de la Garza, Anne-Marie Dubois, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sara Knelman, Maryse Larivière and Dominique Quessada

Languages: English or French

Number of pages: 168

Publication date: 2019

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Images are now so insidiously omnipresent that their nature has been obliterated. At one time photographs were indicators of reality, but how do they function today? Now that images of the whole world are being captured by everyone at every moment, what do images have to say? By considering the content and meaning of fixed and moving images, the artists and authors in this volume invite readers to cast a critical eye upon testimonials offered.

Curator: Ami Barak

Contributors: Mara Ambrozič, Mirna Boyadjian, Françoise Docquiert, Sophie Hackett, Bénédicte Ramade and the artist Micah Lexier

Languages: English or French

Number of pages: 176

Publication date: 2017

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