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17th
International Architecture Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
Pavilion of Turkey
22/05—21/11/2021
SALE D'ARMI, ARSENALE
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AT THE
CONSTRUCTION
SITE
NEMESTUDIO
Published on
30/06/2021
Keywords
FORMWORK, RECONSTRUCTION SITE, MORE-THAN-HUMAN
NEMESTUDIO, Four Dioramas, 2021. Courtesy of NEMESTUDIO.
Published on
30/06/2021
Keywords
FORMWORK, RECONSTRUCTION SITE, MORE-THAN-HUMAN
AT THE
CONSTRUCTION
SITE
NEMESTUDIO

It is dawn in the New Land Reconstruction Site. A century of repair and care have passed here since the arrival of the First Inhabitants. The New Land is now a historical site, populated with all kinds of New Species, who are the new inhabitants and the caregivers of the land. In this landscape, soil is recognized as an archive and a template for assessing previous human and more-than-human struggles, and the geo-history of the Earth. In the distance, various statues of the First Inhabitants and the more-than-human imaginaries of the Ancient Land, and colossal Carbon Monuments—ancient rock formations built to sequester carbon through air-capture—can be seen. Among these is a large statue of Şahmeran, a half-snake half-woman mythical creature from Anatolia, which hints to the new mythologies of the New Land. The statues are also surrounded by numerous artifacts of the Ancient Land, such as the Neo-Hittite Chimera, a creature with a human head and a lion’s body from an ancient capital in the Southeastern Anatolia. The Artuklu Hamam is now in its final resting place. Enjoying the last moments of the dawn, a new inhabitant is sitting on the edge of a formwork, reading stories from the Ancient Land archives about alternative architectural imaginations of the environment and the idea of construction itself. She is suddenly reminded of how exhilarating the view of the East and the future itself both are.