Spain
The Spain Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition features feminine faces representing the gender of the country's cities. The installation examines the complexity of the city's features, actors, and dialogues exchanged, and explores contemporary city life through living characters in the city. The exhibit aims to construct a simulated fabric of urban relations, building a choral work with the voices we no longer hear, deafened by our own collective noise. It also explores the interlinked world where many already belong to a digitally born generation, and knowledge is now spread in a different way.
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...