“Tide of Returns puts on the table the current debate on looting and repatriation, but moves it away from major institutions and hollow discourses to give a platform to those who truly embody and preserve indigenous wisdom and art. At the same time it confronts the way we look at the world to offer another alternative governed by solidarity and collectivity. In the context of a Biennale marked by the geopolitical tensions of a world that is faltering, TBA21’s exhibition poses a dilemma that may seem utopian, but teaches us that we can exist in another way.” Carlota Barreda piece El Confidencial.

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“…the show offered a cool respite from the intensity of endless pavilion-style exhibitions, and demanded a more rigorous intellectual and political engagement.” Alison Hugill, Berlin Art Link

• Dalia Maini for Arts of the Working Class: (click titles for links) What is returned can’t be sent back.

• Matilde Crucitti contributed a piece for Coeval (here is the link).

• Veronica Simpson published an in-depth article on Studio International dedicated to the exhibition.

• For Espoarte, Luca Bernardini wrote Oltre la restituzione. Forme e tensioni del ritorno da Ocean Space a Venezia.

• ArtsAfrica and FAD Magazine also published an excerpt from the press release. (here the ArtAfrica link – here FAD Magazine link)

• Kailas Elmer’s Homecoming Tides: Art, Water and the Right to Return, written for Trebuchet.

• Sands and rituals from the antipodes. Discover them in a former church in Venice, by Alberto Villa, from Artribune

• The review by Marisol Salanova for ArteInformado is available at this link.
  Repatriates Collective: Tide of Returns The Dialogue Among Indigenous Worldviews is the article by Lidia Recacho published in Metal Magazine.

• Here is the link to the article by Emanuela Marmo from MicroMeg

• You can find the article by Hector San Jose for ArsMagazine (in Spanish) at this link.

• Here is the link to the article by Alice Salta for Segno.

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• Cecilia Larese (ATP Diary) published an in-depth review titled A Story of Giving and Receiving: How Tide of Returns Narrates the Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, reflecting on the exhibition as a process of exchange and reciprocity.

“…quirky communities, some crowded together, as if at a celebration or gathering; some in circle-formation, ceremonial-style; others dispersed, in twos and threes. They range in size from between 4cm and 40cm, and it is fascinating to follow their flows and formations. In detail and as a whole, the installation works powerfully within this historic space; the colour of the red sand chiming with the colour of ancient bricks… Your eye is drawn from near to far, tracing curves along the dune line, to alight on the whorls of an elaborate, wrought-iron grille and up to the swooping lines of the restored vaulted ceiling. I am delighted – but not surprised – to find, halfway down the north wall, a series of faces of plump-cheeked cherubs or angels, looking for all the world like dolls heads. Big, square, black bean bags are strewn in front of the video in From My Mother’s Country, inviting you to dwell in this space and absorb the material and thematic richness of it all…”

• ArtReview Here is the link