Albanian pavilion

Focused on the architecture of displacement and migration, the curators produced a 12-inch vinyl record with the voices of Albania, played continuously at the Venice Biennale. 

Albanian Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Curated by Simon Battisti, Leah Whitman-Salkin, and Åbäke, the Albanian Pavilion responds to the Biennale Architettura 2016 curator Alejandro Aravena’s theme of “Reporting from the Front” by presenting “I Have Left You the Mountain”, a condition that has come to define the urban fabric of Albania: the architecture of displacement and migration.
Albanian Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Albanian Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2016

Albanian urbanism has developed in step with radical political shifts, but the trend of migration has been steady: in 2013, 45 percent of Albanian nationals lived abroad.

The curators have collaborated with preeminent international writers, thinkers, and traditional Albanian iso-polyphonic singers to produce a 12-inch vinyl record that will be played continuously in the pavilion as an eight-channel audio installation, filling the pavilion with the voices of Albania.

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