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Architecture Biennale, now the center is Africa

2023-02-21T15:43:38.040Z


"The history of architecture is not wrong, it is incomplete" says Lesley Lokko, Anglo-Ghanaian curator of "The Laboratory of the Future", la 18. (ANSA)


(ANSA) - VENICE, FEBRUARY 21 - "The history of architecture is not wrong, it is incomplete" says Lesley Lokko, Anglo-Ghanaian curator of "The Laboratory of the Future", the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale which focus on an "excluded" reality, the African continent.

"For the first time, the spotlights - he notes - are on Africa and its diaspora, on that fluid and intertwined culture of people of African origin that today embraces the world. What do we want to say? How will what we say change anything? And, perhaps most important of all, what we say will influence and involve what 'others' say, making the exhibition not so much a single story, but a set of stories capable of reflecting the fascinating,


   "The curator - underlines Roberto Cicutto, president of the Biennale - starts from her continent of origin, Africa, to recount all its historical, economic, climatic and political criticalities and to tell everyone 'much has already happened to us of what is happening to the rest of the Let's compare ourselves to understand where we went wrong and how the world should be faced'. Arsenale and Forte Marghera with the other sections (ANSA).


Source: ansa

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