Perspective is not observed, it is assumed.
The 2022 edition marked our arrival in physical space. For the first time, ZSB brought contemporary practice into direct contact with the city, establishing a tangible dialogue between object and viewer. Under the theme #perspectiva31, we built a shared space for conflicting ideas and cross-generational conversations. From professional roundtables on monument protection to our annual youth competition, where students reimagined the Arc de Triomphe, the festival prioritized a wide spectrum of viewpoints over a single narrative.
Perspective is not observed, but assumed. The # in #perspectiva31 opens exactly that question: whose perspective? From where? The number 31, the count of artists in the exhibition, is embedded in the title itself, making the plurality visible from the start.Thirty-one works coexisted without hierarchy, forming a constellation of voices shaped by different generations, trajectories, and moments of practice. Materials, forms, and concepts pulled in different directions, held together only by a shared commitment to the public realm, where meaning is unstable, memory contested, and presence never neutral.
