This presentation by Sabrina Moura, titled ‘On the Verge of Now’, analyses three recent biennial editions: the Sharjah Biennial 14: ‘Leaving the Echo Chamber’ (2019), the 33rd São Paulo Biennial: ‘Living Uncertainty’ (2016) and the 20th Sydney Biennial: ‘The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed’ (2016).

The talk presents research published in an essay of the same title that was commissioned for the March Meeting Papers. Selected through the March Meeting 2021 open call, the essays included in the March Meeting Papers expand on curator Okwui Enwezor’s influential thinking about the Biennial as a platform to engage with history, politics and society. Taken together, these essays reveal the extent to which the biennial model, such as the Sharjah Biennial, has contributed to the realisation of new narratives and experiences of modern and contemporary art.