Today, Saturday, the Saudi Ministry of Culture inaugurated the Biennial of the South International for Contemporary Art “Binalsour” in Jax neighborhood in Diriyah under the title “Echoes: A World Between Analog and Analog”, in the presence of Binalsur Director General Anibal Khouzami, and a group of Saudi and international diplomats and artists.

The biennale will continue in Jax neighborhood in Diriyah, before moving to Khuzam Palace in Jeddah, starting from the 30th of next November. The artworks deal with the following themes: environmental awareness, ways of living, artistic politics, transit and migrations, and shifting formations, under the supervision of curator Diana B and Wechsler. from Argentina.

The Biennale includes more than 30 works by artists from different nationalities of the world, including five Saudi artists: Muhannad Shono, Lina Qazzaz, Ahed Al-Amoudi, Falwa Nazer and Dania Al-Saleh. The works are divided into four axes: "in space, against time", "toward nature and the unexpected", "in lights and shadows", and "in the human condition".

The Biennale of Contemporary Art is a multipolar biennial, as it acts as a network of cooperation between museums, cultural centers and universities all over the world, starting from South America and with a free conceptual creative orientation, calling for a rethinking of the basic premises, in an effort to contribute to creating a new logic for artistic and social circulation At the local and global levels.

Its network extends from Tres de Fibreiro National University, in Buenos Aires, to the University of the Arts in Tokyo, Japan, and the Biennale’s first opening took place in 2021 at the Regional Museum of Fine Arts in Salta, Argentina on July 8, through an exhibition entitled La Escucha y los Vientos (Sound and Wind). And it continues to travel around the world until it reaches its last stop in December 2021 AD, and it passes during this trip in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where it is hosted by the Ministry of Culture in Jax neighborhood in Diriyah and Khuzam Palace in Jeddah.

This is the Kingdom's second hosting of the international "Binalsur", after the Ministry of Culture hosted it in 2019 at the National Museum, in light of the ministry's keenness to provide high-end creative platforms for art connoisseurs in the Kingdom, and to create opportunities for communication between Saudi creators and their counterparts in the world, to enhance cultural exchange. International, in addition to achieving the goals of the National Strategy for Culture, which stressed the importance of empowering and supporting Saudi artists and creators to reach important international platforms.