Resolve Collective, our 2023 Tilos artist residents participate in Walk & Talk Bienal de Artes 2025 with a new commission work.
The first edition of Walk&Talk—Bienal de Artes transforms the island of São Miguel into a territory in motion from September 25 to November 30, 2025, with exhibitions, performances, music, gatherings, and multiple formats open to participation. Activated by a continuous program of public activities—including excursions, walks, talks, presentations, and parties—the Biennial’s rhythm is marked by three key moments: the Opening (September 25–30), the Symposium (November 7–9), and the Closing (November 28–30).
Gestures of Abundance proposes a shift from scarcity to abundance as a way of being—cultivating practices that regenerate rather than extract, listen rather than impose, and connect rather than isolate. It frames abundance as both ethical stance and political position, affirming art as a space to rehearse alternative forms of coexistence rooted in interdependence between humans, territories, and more-than-human worlds. Through creation, research, education, and sharing, the program embraces the abundance already present, and invites its collective experience.
Curated by Claire Shea, Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy, Jesse James, and Liliana Coutinho, in dialogue with the organisation’s teams, the Biennial unfolds as a shared and attentive process. It brings together 18 new commissions developed in residence in the Azores, alongside existing works and projects that activate an ecology of practices, ideas, and relationships.
The exhibition unfolds across multiple spaces, forming an open itinerary where ideas, practices, and voices intersect. New commissions appear alongside works by other artists and pieces from regional collections, exploring different dimensions of the Biennial’s theme and territory: the sea as a living and political archive; the earth as a relational and vibrant body; the pedagogical gesture as an insurgent practice; care, orality, and resistance as embodied knowledge; the invisible as a poetic and spiritual language; the body as a place of listening and inscription.
New Commissions: Alice Visentin, Colectiva Malva, Ebun Sodipo, Helle Siljeholm, Inês Coelho da Silva & Kita Rancaño Ward, Janilda Bartolomeu, Joana Sá, Jokkoo Collective, José Pedro Cortes, Lucy Bleach, Mae-Ling Lokko, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Maria Emanuel Albergaria, Meg Stuart & PACAP, Nadia Belerique, Resolve Collective, Rafa Bqueer & Soya the Cow, Walla Capelobo.
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Activity aligned with Goals 1,2,3,4,8,11,14,15
