It is true that rivers have mouths, but if bodies of water could really speak to us, what would they say? This is the question contemplated by Colombian Artistic Director José Roca and his team for the 23rd Biennale of Sydney in 2022, titled rīvus.
The idea for this iteration of the Biennale came from a previous exhibition that Roca had undertaken in 2014 at the Bard. This exhibition was used as a point of departure for rīvusand from it a broader cultural context was born, focused on aquatic environmentalism and sustainability at large.
