Denmark
The Nordic Welfare State assigned architecture a crucial role in planning and designing the physical setting for modern, urban, democratic lifestyles. The Empowerment of Aesthetics exhibition at the Danish Pavilion reflects on the fundamentals of modern Danish society and presents forgotten, repressed, or underexposed parts of Danish modernity in architecture, science, art, and poetry. The exhibition aims to reintroduce the value of aesthetics and its importance as a complementarity to rationality for future decision-making.
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...
Latvia's participation in the Biennale Architettura 2023 is organized and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.
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