2023 Venice Architecture Biennale - Diachronic Apparatuses of Taiwan
2023.03.01
Venice Architecture Biennale returns in 2023 for its 18th edition, between May and November. The biennale is curated by Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko and follows the theme ”The Laboratory of the Future”.
Imagining the exhibition as a workshop, a laboratory, the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale invites “architects and practitioners across an expanded field of creative disciplines [to] draw out examples from their contemporary practices that chart a path for the audience to weave through, imagining for themselves what the future can hold”.
The Biennale Architettura is widely regarded as one of the most significant international arts events in the world. Each edition of this event has attracted hundreds of world-renowned architects to present their latest architectural concepts and techniques in their ongoing search for the best possible environment for human living. With organizational assistance from the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwanese architects took part in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition “ Diachronic Apparatuses of Taiwan – Architecture as on-going details within landscape”, which will be exhibited at Palazzo delle Prigioni in Venice, Italy, from May 20 to November 26, 2023.
Through an inventory of agricultural landscapes across different altitudes and latitudes in Taiwan, this year’s presentation illustrates how people have used their knowledge and technology to shape diverse building forms in a bid to tame the environment. The objective is to initiate a dialogue between synthetic and real ground, and also to relearn from the countryside.
The curation of Diachronic Apparatuses of Taiwan – Architecture as on-going details within landscape echoes the La Biennale di Venezia’s theme of this year. It posits that the next chapter of the 21st century may require us to take a detour, along which we must pay attention to and restore the surroundings that have been forgotten in the wake of progress. The curatorial team revisited Taiwan’s geography to look for signposts pointing to a brighter future in “real life”.
Curator: Wei TSENG
Co-Curators: Sheng-Chieh KO, Jeong-Der HO, Meng Tsun SU
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▪ Source: labiennale.org／NTMoFA
▪ Words: labiennale.org／NTMoFA
▪ Photography Credit: Courtesy of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
