Visual Essays: Untitled Reflections on the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale
Part of the e-publication: Field Notes from the Pluriversity

This short series of visual essay is created as part of a larger reflection on the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, edited by Zachary Torres. 

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"To look closer at Lesley’s smiling portrait once more, the wall-text remained out-of-focus and atmospheric, which allowed for an optically comfortable distance between the Biennale and the subject of critique – coloniality. And so, in this treacherous territory of architecture being complicit and in an institution that is the key player in the commodification of the practice, Lesley Lokko and her team, like the many Biennale participants they invited, adopted the language of fugitivity and the maroon, which called for a series of masterfully curatorial and design choices and compromises, together they walked /woven lines/tapestry between the emancipatory and the institutional." (~excerpt)