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Have We Met?

 

Have We Met? Dutch Pavilion 23° Triennale di Milano, Italy. 2022 Golden Bee Award

 
 

We imagined the embassy of the “Zoo-op” in Milan as an inhabitable exquisite corpse, a composition of mineral, botanical, human, and animal parts, coming together as an architectural chimera. Not only composed of several bodies, but itself made by several authors, the installation is imagined as an object-creature, temporarily inhabiting a room of the Triennale’s building, while hosting within it other human and non-human characters. Within it, we are within the belly of an animal - like Ulysses, escaping Polyphemus by “becoming” a sheep - and in an observatory; under a vaulted sky and in a temporary shelter; in a garden/terrarium, where we can pick seeds, move soil, leave footprints, and in a map, where places come together through abstraction and storytelling.

 
 
 

TEAM Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, Pedro Daniel Pantaleone, Konstantin Beck CLIENT Het Nieuwe Instituut COMMISIONER Aric Chen PROJECT DIRECTOR Francien van Westrenen CURATORS Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Ellen Zoete PRODUCERS Nikita Hurkmans, Wietske Nutma GRAPHIC DESIGN Mislav Žugaj, Gailė Pranckūnaitė PRODUCTION Tomaello Bv, Showtex PHOTOS Cristiano Corte, Nicole Marnati