team. After this date, the artists from different countries and geographical areas are expressly selected by the curators of the event, by virtue of the organic articulation of their work with the thesis being worked on each occasion. This Biennial proposed as part of its thesis the interrelations between the so-called high art and popular art. Nearly 300 artists from 41 countries participated in the Biennial. 4th Bienal de La Habana Subject: Challenge to Colonization Director: Llilian Llanes Held in 1991, it served as an exceptional space for reflection on the meaning of colonization and neo-colonization, not only of the contents of our societies and cultures, but also of the languages and instruments used today. This Biennial was held in the context of the controversy generated by the celebration of the V Centenary of the Discovery of America. Nearly 200 artists from 45 countries participated in the Biennial. 5th Bienal de La Habana Subject: Art, Society and Reflection Director: Llilian Llanes This edition of the Biennial, inaugurated in 1994, was intended to highlight the close links between artistic production and contextual conflicts, as a quality consubstantial to a whole area of contemporary art in our regions. Particular themes were worked on, such as: the physical and social environment; the different expressions of marginality and power relations in the sphere of art; the phenomenon of migrations and intercultural processes; the conflicts of human beings living in "the periphery of postmodernity"; and cultural appropriations and crossbreeding. Nearly 200 artists from 43 countries participated in the event. 6th Bienal de La Habana Subject: The individual and his memory Director: Llilian Llanes This event, which took place in 1997, showed the work of a significant group of artists who had appealed to different registers of memory with the purpose of reaffirming their human and social condition. The crisis of ethical and spiritual values, as well as existential conflicts, were reflected in projects through the oversizing of the body and the use of objects that assume a symbolic connotation and reveal a sense of belonging or explain their evocative capacity. It was attended by 170 artists from 41 countries. 7th Bienal de La Habana Subject: One closer to the other Director: Nelson Herrera Ysla Held from November 2000 to January 2001. More than 171 artists from 43 different countries participated in this edition of the biennale, among them Nadín Ospina, Francis Alÿs, Susan Hiller, Julieta