I snap, you snap, we snap – The 14th Mercosul Biennial is an event centered around the idea of transformation. Whether a verb or a noun, the word "snap" evokes memories that range from the tragic to the comedic, from stories based on our biographies to historical events of national or global significance. This edition of the Biennial features 77 artists with contrasting contexts and interests, and the dissonance of their existential snaps is the driving force behind the audience’s reflection.

As this edition is a tribute to the constant movement that runs through our lives and the ways in which we deal with images, it is only fitting that the selection of artists and works points in contradictory directions. We want to invent worlds together with the audience, improvise until dawn and exhaustion arrive. The eighteen exhibition spaces that graciously host the event are temporary meetings of voices. Each exhibition has a different title that, in a fictional way, connects to the notion of "snap," expanding the semantic field of the Biennial. Snapping together is enjoyable, and respecting our individual rhythms is essential!

The asterisk, in textual language, serves as a call for something that deserves further exploration. The exhibitions at the Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul are spaces where the boundaries of distinct notions of Snap intersect; they both disperse and agglutinate, but together, they fix points that deserve our attention. The works gathered here encourage us to think about how the condition of existence is intimately linked to the collective and to the movements of creation and transformation.

The various artistic practices present in the iconic building that houses both institutions navigate between mythology, interspecies relationships, social dynamics, and the sensoriality of bodies, revisiting any stable and binary logic in the different spheres of human and non-human lives.