Finland
The wave of asylum seekers in T1 2015 challenged the values and concept of Europe, but also created an opportunity for ideas to transform into solutions. Finland's increased number of asylum seekers highlighted the need for better integration solutions, leading to the From Border to Home competition, with proposals presented at the Finnish Pavilion to promote debate and dispel the idea that the needs of migrants burden local communities.
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...