Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice will be curated by Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, and Thiago de Paula Souza. They are joined by co-curator at large Keyna Eleison and strategy and communications advisor Henriette Gallus. The exhibition is informed by Afrobrazilian poet Conceição Evaristo’s poem Da calma e do silêncio (Of calm and silence).
This Bienal proposes to understand humanity as a verb—a continuous practice—rather than a fixed condition. It emphasizes the need to reimagine relationships, confront asymmetries, and make listening central to coexistence, articulated through three curatorial axes. Drawing on Brazilian philosophies, landscapes, and mythologies, the project reflects the many encounters that have shaped Brazil’s history and suggests that humanity is built and transformed through listening, negotiation, and exchange among diverse beings and worlds.