TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions
SITE’s second Biennial, TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, benefited from the concurrent opening of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum as well as the second ART Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, producing a triple header that attracted the art world’s attention. Aptly named, this Biennial signaled a truce with the community by engaging in dialogues with local voices. Curator Francesco Bonami assembled 27 artists from 20 countries whose work connected isolated individuals to communal forces and contested our culture’s language of violence as “the only transmitter of meaning.” Among this Biennial’s successes count Sam Taylor-Wood’s simultaneous videos of five isolated people narrating their lives, Esko Männikkö’s bleak photographs of West Texas Hispanic communities, subREAL’s documenting of Ceaucescu’s fall, and, in his first U.S. showing, William Kentridge’s animations of post-apartheid South Africa.


















