In this
perspective, every human being has an irreducible
value and dignity — but also, because we have one Environment who fulfils all our knowing and loving and all our desire for love and truth, we are more
deeply connected to each other than we sometimes dare to imagine.
It also departs from the biennial's
value system as rooted in the empire building world's fairs of the 19th and 20th centuries — many call London's Great Exhibition of 1951 held in a dramatic crystal palace the «first» biennial — designed to give viewers a
deeply overwhelming «great mass and jumble of things» (commodities, mostly) as «a challenge to make sense of... unimaginable diversity; to find or invert a «
perspective» on the whole so that objects could be made to «stay and lie orderly.»