Swiss artists to showcase project on borders at Venice Biennale
The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia has chosen a quartet of artists and architects from Geneva to present their work on political and spatial borders at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Material collected in the participative project, Orae – Experiences on the Border, will be exhibited in the Swiss Pavillion at the Biennale, which runs from May 22 to November 21, Pro Helvetia announced on Thursday.
The team, comprised of Mounir Ayoub and Vanessa Lacaille, both of the Laboratoire d’architecture in Geneva, film-maker Fabrice Aragno and sculptor Pierre Szczepski, began their work in 2019 by travelling to the country’s border regions with a mobile studio. They invited members of the public to build an imaginary or real place of their choice at the border as they were recorded by video camera.
After the coronavirus pandemic hit Switzerland, the artists decided to re-visit the same locations to learn about the inhabitants’ changing views on the concept of borders.
The project “draws our attention to a territory and its complex social and cultural structure – it offers a voice to people who are otherwise less heard,” said Madeleine Schuppli, head of visual arts at Pro Helvetia.
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