BELÉM.- The 2nd Bienal das Amazônias. Verde-Distância opens with time spent together. This first week is a convergence, a moment where exhibition, public program, and lived relations overlap. Set in Belém, a city shaped by the confluence of forest, port, and river, the biennial moves through and with the temporalities of the region. It amplifies grounded forms of knowing and listens to what is sometimes difficult to say. It invites us to dwell in the entanglements between languages, between bodies, and between worlds that refuse capture. Throughout the opening week we are reminded that gathering can be an ethical gesture, that distance can be fertile, and that art can become a form of dreaming together, grounded and receptive to what the present has yet to imagine.

From August 27 to 31, 2025, the Bienal unfolds through a series of embodied encounters and collective breaths—performances and assemblies that activate this edition’s curatorial field as a space of presence, relation, and listening. Each morning, artists engage the exhibition transforming it into a dynamic terrain where bodies think, remember, and resist. These artworks carry ancestral knowledge, sonic memory, and political force. Artists including Akha (Belém, Brazil), Delfina Nina (Peru), Gwladys Gambie (Martinique), Nathalie Leroy Fiévée (French Guiana), Nathyfa Michel (French Guiana), Mapa Teatro + Nukak (Colombia), Roberto Evangelista (Manaus, Brazil), Roma Rio (Belém, Brazil), Rubén Barrios-Rodríguez (Colombia), Wilson Díaz (Colombia), and others, will move through the space activating forms of attention that escape enclosure. Each performance becomes a form of orientation: toward one and other, toward the land, toward time itself.

In the afternoons, we sit in the Assemblies Verde-Vagomundo—open circles of shared reflection inspired by the drifting and insurgent prose of the Paráense writer Benedicto Monteiro. These assemblies are spaces where conversation is guided by attunement rather than resolution. Each assembly centers one of the biennial's conceptual axes: Memory, as porous archive and embodied rhythm; Distance, as ecological and ethical space of relation; Accent, as sonic displacement and epistemic fracture; and Dreams, as technologies for what has yet to be named. Artists, curators, and audiences gather to speak from situated practice and territories. Moderated by the curatorial team, each conversation weaves together diverse voices affirming tension as a method, friction as pedagogy, and proximity as care.

This edition of the biennial understands curating as a political gesture and a poetic infrastructure: a way of holding space for difference, dissent, and unexpected relation. It brings together artistic practices that are experimental, situated, and transdisciplinary—creative processes that think with the forest, speak through traces, and act from within communities.