Israel
"Aircraft Carrier" explores the changes in Israeli architecture since 1973, influenced by American capitalism and the Middle East's strategic importance. The exhibition showcases the impact of social, political, and economic structures, energy crises, and territorial struggles on Israeli architecture through historical and contemporary material. It questions the cultural orientation of architecture and its program amidst crises and portrays phenomena like signals, empori, allies, and flottiles through commissioned artworks
Supermarket sweep… the Latvian pavilion which has been transformed into a minimart.
This contribution brings a little levity to the long trek through the halls of the Arsenale.
Choice as the basis of architectural process, the pop aesthetics emphasizing the languages of consumption as in Hamilton or Warhol: everything is structured by the dynamics of commerce.
Welcome to T/C Latvija, surely the most instagrammed installation of this edition of the Biennale
Latvia is reopening the archive boxes once again, reminding us (including the Biennial Presidency) of everything that has already been thought up and invented, and inviting us to place the most urgently needed products in the basket, to combine them with one another, and ultimately consume all the knowledge.
Fun, colourful and thought-provoking, it offers a tongue-in-cheek moment to the Arsenale sequence...