Uruguay
The table has been a powerful tool for storytelling throughout history, representing a symbol of communication where public and private, domestic and territorial can coexist. In Uruguay, a black table is being built as a public monument, while a white table in Venice invites dialogue and shaping of the future. The black table is a resource to remember the past and think about how it is brought to the present, while the white table serves as a place for dialogue, where politicians have made promises, cooperatives have developed programs, and activists have proposed new cities.
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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