Salman Toor
Luhring Augustine congratulates Salman Toor on his inclusion in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. The exhibition is on view through Sunday, November 24, 2024.
The Biennale Arte 2024 focuses on artists who are themselves foreigners, immigrants, expatriates, diasporic, émigrés, exiled, and refugees—especially those who have moved between the Global South and the Global North. The figure of the foreigner is associated with the stranger, the “straniero,” the “estranho,” the “étranger,” and thus the exhibition unfolds and focuses on the production of other related subjects: the queer artist, who has moved within different sexualities and genders, often being persecuted or outlawed; the outsider artist, who is located at the margins of the art world, much like the autodidact and the so-called folk artist; as well as the indigenous artist, frequently treated as a foreigner in their own land.
To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the Venice Biennale website.