On view November 8, 2025 - March 31, 2026
Curated by Kitty Scott and co-curated by Xue Tan and Daisy Desrosiers, this edition of the Biennale, titled Does the flower hear the bee?, features over 250 works by 67 individual artists and collectives from around the world, taking its cue from recent scientific discoveries about the interactions between different life forms. Like the flower that “hears” the bee’s wings, this exhibition aims to operate at the intersection of differing models of intelligence, both human and nonhuman. It is based on the belief that recent art provides us with a privileged space for such investigations, offering an embodied and interconnected sphere in which communities may form stronger bonds with what eco-philosopher David Abram has called “the more-than-human world.”
To this end, Rohini Devasher presents works from her Sol Drawings and Shadow Portraits series, as well as her ambitious One Hundred Thousand Suns film, which explores four distinct dimensions of the Sun: material, ephemeral, personal, and historical. Driven by more than 157,000 portraits of our nearest star, observed over 120 years, One Hundred Thousand Suns is a major audio-visual work that centers on the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory in India, where every day since 1901 staff have recorded images of the Sun. Through the Observatory’s archival material, combined with public-domain images from NASA and the artist’s own data—photographs, drawings, videos, and interviews with eclipse chasers—Devasher examines the complexities of observational astronomy and the ways in which ‘seeing’ is strange, wondrous, and more ambiguous than one might imagine.
