We live in a modern era and yet today one of the most popular movements throughout the art world is `postmodernism' - that is the reaction against principles and practices of established `modernism'. Could it not be said therefore that `postmodernism' is as a reaction against everything we have come to know and accept in our contemporary world? In The Sydney Biennale 2004 this statement could hold true. By confronting and questioning known philosophical beliefs ranging from art to science, the Biennale aims to inform the audience both through its physical embodiment and the art `idea'. `On reason and emotion' allows the artists and audience to explore the stipulation of the heart and mind and through this challenging the ultimate question of what it is to be human.

In Helena Almeida's "Untitled" the subject of the series of six photographs is as beautiful as it is confusing. The human...