Gabriela de Mattos and Paulo Tavares curate the Brazilian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale

The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces the curators and the project to represent the Brazilian Pavilion during the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.

Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, sponsored by Leslie Loco under the theme Laboratory of the Future,

It will open to the public from 20 May to 26 November 2023 at the Arsenale and Giardini stadiums.

The Brazilian Pavilion will be curated by Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares,

both of whom have extensive research and curatorial experience.

The curators, whose work takes a cross-sectional approach in dialogue with studies of race, gender, pedagogy and visual culture, have been selected

By closed call for projects to represent the Brazilian Pavilion.

The ground is the main element that will form the Brazilian Pavilion

Gabriela de Matos and Paolo Tavares responded by proposing an exhibition that would focus on

“Earth” as the founding theme of perceptions, fantasies, and narratives of national formation.

The land is the founding idea of concepts, imaginations,

and narratives of national formation and representation of Brazil.

Representations of nationality have been organized through idealistic and elemental visions of tropical nature…

The land is also a founding motif in the cosmology, philosophies,

and narratives of the indigenous and Afro-Brazilian populations that make up most of the national cultural matrix.

But in this approach, the concept of land appears in another form,

as an origin that takes us to geo-cultural regions inside and outside Brazil.

He points to other senses of land and territory – such as belonging, cultivation,

rights, compensation and other fantasies of Brazil.

While the curators’ proposal proceeds from these reflections and their contemporary relevance in thinking of Brazil as the land.

Land as soil, farm, land, territory and terrero.

But also the Earth in its universal and cosmic sense,

as a planet and the common home of all life, human and non-human.

Land as memory, but also as future, looks to the past and heritage to rethink the field of architecture that confronts the most pressing contemporary urban,

regional and environmental issues.”

The International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia is a privileged space for discussing the most pressing topics in architecture and urbanism,

an area that ultimately reflects on the dynamics of our lives from the use and sharing of common spaces, as a community.

At a time when humanity is facing great challenges, the exhibition proposed by the young architects Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares,

It is a way to highlight research and practices that can shape our collective future.

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