Belgium
The exhibition at the Belgian Pavilion explores the ways in which inhabitants adapt and modify buildings to reflect their lifestyles. It offers an inside perspective on housing and shows how vernacular architecture absorbs modernity. The research is based on empirical material from thousands of photographs of home interiors taken throughout Belgium, and the findings are released as a book. The architectural project in the pavilion is an interpretation of the research.
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...