The 60th edition of the Venice Biennale opens this Friday. It will be the first in which the majority of the artists are from the global south.

It is an invitation to observe everything that the biennial has strived to ignore during its 130 years of history. The curator, director of the So Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), is the first Latin American to assume this position. "I felt like I had a mission," he said Monday as he put the finishing touches on the exhibit. 'I wanted to make a very political proposal, but also very poetic,' Pedrosa responds. He is also the first openly openly transgender artist to spearhead this biennial. The event will feature works by more than 100 artists, many of whom are unknown to the public. The theme is 'the immigrant, the foreigner, the indigenous.' The story of this biennial, perhaps more in favor of cataloging than interpreting, draws a world of invisible alliances between individuals and subjected groups of different kinds, who only share their transversal condition of being excluded. Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the biennial, "I am aware that it is not an exhibition about landscaping, but about a political issue." The exhibition will run until September 14. For more information, visit the exhibition's website or go to: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/14/art/queen-of-the-queens-biennial/index.html#storylink=cpy. The exhibition is open to the public and runs until September 13. For confidential support, call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or click here for details. In the U.S., call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255.