TC Latvija, TCL, Pavilion image. Image © Toms Kampars
TC Latvija, TCL, Pavilion image. Image © Toms Kampars
TC Latvija, TCL, Pavilion image. Image © Toms Kampars
Ideas drawn from the last ten editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale stock the shelves of Latvia’s grocery store-style pavilion.
At first glance, it might look like your typical supermarket, but look closer at Latvia’s 2023 Venice pavilion and it quickly becomes clear that the products are all cardboard.
What resembles boxes of tea and cartons of juice are all based on previous ideas and themes presented as part of the architecture biennale.
There are 506 products organised along aisles named after prior biennale themes – for example, Fundamentals, from 2014, and Beyond Building, from 2008. Visitors can’t actually shop, but they can vote on products as a way of assessing past biennales.
TC Latvija, TCL, Pavilion image. Image © Toms Kampars
TC Latvija, TCL, Pavilion image. Image © Toms Kampars
TC Latvija, TCL, Pavilion image. Image © Toms Kampars