Disslocamento / Dissplacement
PERFORMANCE 13.09.2026 17:30
WITH Rafa Black [Vilanismo]
FREE ENTRY Donations welcome
ACCESS SAVVY is accessible by wheelchair
Disslocamento [Dissplacement/Disstanz] is an activation related to Rafa Black's artwork Mizuno from his Pisantes de 1000. The performance marks the moment of the artist's arrival at the exhibition where the Mizuno sneaker will be presented. Popularly known in Brazil as a sneaker that represents the social mobility of favela and black people, the artist wears a sneaker dirty with earth from his grandmother's garden. She had to relocate from Alagoas, a state in the Northeast, to São Paulo, in the Southeast of the country, in search of better life opportunities. In Berlin, wearing the dirt-stained sneaker, the artist reaffirms the condition of displacement as a global political gesture, dropping a diss on colonialism.
PORTUGUÊS
Disslocamento [Dissplacement/Disstanz] é uma ativação relacionada ao trabalho Mizuno, da série Pisantes de 1000, de Rafa Black. A performance marca o momento da chegada do artista à exposição que o tênis Mizuno será apresentado. Popularmente conhecido no Brasil como um tênis que representa ascensão social das pessoas faveladas, o artista calça um tênis sujo de terra do jardim de sua avó, que teve que se deslocar de Alagoas, estado do Nordeste, para São Paulo, no Sudeste do país, para melhores oportunidades de vida. Em Berlim, com o tênis sujo, o artista reafirma a condição de deslocamento enquanto gesto político global fazendo uma diss ao colonialismo.
COLLABORATION This project is part of Fundação Bienal de São Paulo’s travelling exhibitions programme, held since 2011. The travelling exhibitions have become a fundamental extension of the Bienal de São Paulo, enabling the works and debates presented at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion to be reconfigured in dialogue with diverse local contexts, activating new readings and relationships with audiences beyond the main exhibition axis. In its 36th edition, this movement reaches fifteen new territories across Brazil and internationally.
The Berlin Edition of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo will be on view at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) from 12 September to 6 December 2026. The exhibition Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice opens there on 11 September 2026 [more details here].
SUPPORT The project is supported by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, the Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, SAVVY friends e.V., Zielinsky Gallery, and private donors.
The opening of Architectural Echotones. A Poetics Of The Surrounds takes place as part of Berlin Art Week.
