Foodscapes, the Spanish Pavilion on the 2023 Venice Biennale Focuses on the Structure of Meals Manufacturing, Distribution, and Consumption

Foodscapes, the Spanish Pavilion on the 2023 Venice Biennale Focuses on the Structure of Meals Manufacturing, Distribution, and Consumption

The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and City Agenda (Mitma) revealed in November 2022 the profitable proposal for the curation and exhibition design of the Spanish Pavilion on the 18th version of the Venice Structure Biennale, which is able to happen from Might 21 to November 26, 2023. Developed by Eduardo Castillo Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña, “Foodscapes” focuses on the biennale’s theme “The Laboratory of the long run”, by selecting as the thing of its analysis the structure associated to the meals manufacturing, distribution, and consumption chain, from the home to the territorial degree.

Within the phrases of the jury, the undertaking is an actual, clever, and revolutionary discourse that promotes analysis and guarantees a studying expertise the place Spanish structure and nationwide territory are protagonists. The jury additionally highlighted its recognition of Spain’s strategic place as a laboratory for a extra sustainable future concerning meals methods and the architectures that construct them, each for the number of its meals manufacturing and for the nation’s publicity to the local weather disaster. The proposal’s unique concretion concerning the final discourse about structure and the long run was valued, highlighting the sensible will to make structure able to altering our perspective on the world.

“Foodscapes” explores the Spanish agro-architectural context to handle points of worldwide scope, by a five-film audiovisual undertaking, a recipe archive, and a public program of conversations and debates. Thus, it analyzes the previous and current of meals methods and the architectures that construct them to look in direction of the long run and ask about different potential fashions which can be able to feeding the world with out devouring the planet.

At a time when vitality debates are extra related than ever, meals stays within the background, and but the way in which we produce, distribute, and devour it mobilizes our societies, shapes our metropolises, and transforms our geographies extra radically than another supply of vitality. After analyzing our meals methods and the architectures that construct them, FOODSCAPES appears to the long run to discover different potential fashions; ones able to feeding the world with out devouring the planet. – Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa on the Spanish Pavilion on the 2023 Venice Structure Biennale.

Concerning the choice competitors of the curatorship, second and third prizes had been additionally awarded to the tasks “Tomorrow” and “Enlighten”, respectively, in addition to two honorable mentions for the themes “Potentialities” and “The Promised Solar”. Likewise, the jury acknowledged the standard of all of the works offered and, due to this fact, additionally awarded 5 honorary mentions, with out financial endowment, to the themes “Bienvenidas”, “Autóctono”, “Know-How”, “Sea” and “Timeless”.