Enwezor has conceived the Biennale as a sequence of intersecting «filters» that compel us to look backwards as much as forwards, in a spirit
of pensiveness more than of zeal.
Scully brings together two art historical strains; European lyric abstraction has often proved insubstantial, but by coming to America, Scully merged this country's predilection for emotion as a vivid, even structural, component of art with a
muted pensiveness he brought from his origins.
Phyllida Barlow's massive work supplants the brashness of youth with a
seasoned pensiveness, but her forms are no less audacious.
Sadness, confusion, happiness, suspicion, surprise and
pensiveness are among the feelings I keep an eye out for when out on the streets.