Israel
LifeObject combines biology and architecture to explore new ways of relating humans and the environment, rejecting the dualistic nature-culture divide. The exhibition features an installation called LifeObject, a "living structure" that responds to its surroundings, and aims to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue between science and architecture. The exhibition focuses on resilience, a key concept in biological systems, which is especially relevant in Israel's geopolitical context.
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...