Il linguaggio oltre l’umano nel sorprendente Padiglione Polonia alla Biennale di Venezia 2026. L’intervista
The Polish Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale presents "Liquid Tongues," a project by artists Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski, curated by Ewa Chomicka and Jolanta Woszczenko with the collective Choir in Motion. The installation eschews spectacle for a subtle, immersive exploration of language beyond the human voice, incorporating sign language, underwater immersion, choreography, and whale songs to destabilize conventional communication.
This matters because "Liquid Tongues" challenges the primacy of human speech as the center of understanding, proposing that silence, gesture, and non-human forms of intelligence are equally valid. In a Biennale often focused on vulnerability and inclusion, the project resists becoming mere institutional aesthetics by embracing incomprehension and difficulty, making a radical statement about exclusion embedded in so-called normal communication.