The Busan Biennale 2024 will be held at the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan Modern & Contemporary History Museum, HANSUNG1918 and Choryang House under the theme of Seeing in the Dark. What might it mean to see in the dark?

The 2024 edition of the Busan Biennale, called Seeing in the Dark is imagined in the mental space between notions of 'Pirate Enlightenment’ on the one hand and ‘Buddhist Enlightenment’ on the other.///

Seeing in the Dark is a visual paradox. It can refer to the metaphorical darkness many people are forced to function in, threatened by the technological appropriation of the wonderful gift of night-vision from the animal world for purposes of surveillance. Darkness is a space of emancipation and awakens a degree of ‘primal’ awareness.

Golrokh Nafisi and Ahmadali Kadivar have been working together for six years to develop and execute ideas collaboratively. Continuous Cities, a series of multiple textile and handmade embroidery pieces are displayed in an installation of curtains and flags hanging from the ceiling and unfolding as travel diaries.