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 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.
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- 27 May 2016
- Venice
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.
from 28 May to 27 November 2016
I Have Left You the Mountain
Albanian Pavilion
15. Architecture Biennale
Arsenale, Venice