The ‘high manta’ has arrived on the Venice Architecture Biennale because of the challenge ‘Following the fish’, which represents Catalonia and the Balearic Islands within the eighteenth version of the worldwide structure exhibition. Where earlier than the road distributors of Barcelona bought merchandise, from this Thursday they’re exhibiting concepts in a pavilion that focuses consideration on Africa and proposes alternate options that contribute to the “decolonization and decarbonization” of cities.
The Catalan pavilion, which will be visited till November 26, has the blankets utilized by immigrants on the streets and sidewalks. All unfold out, hung from the ceiling, embellished and intertwined to guide a story that gathers the tales of quite a few Senegalese who got here to the Catalan capital in search of a greater life.
Among the ‘merchandise’ exhibited you may see FC Barcelona shirts, hats, luggage and footwear, amongst different objects. An exhibition by the Institut Ramon Llull with the collaboration of the social and political collective “Top Manta”, the Popular Union of Street Vendors of Barcelona.
Catalan exhibition on the Venice Biennale© Flavio Coddou / IRL
The mantero market of the exhibition goals to maneuver the general public to the road for a number of days because of an city look, which permits us to grasp the place as a passage and counsel the thought of transit. The first banner exhibits Africa because the origin of humanity, whereas the final one exhibits how the timber have been invaded by vehicles. All this with messages in regards to the plundering of the African continent or immigration legal guidelines, with pages the place the phrase “racist” seems written.
An open and steady area to the community of streets the place you may proceed strolling. In this fashion, just like the blanket markets conditioned by police persecution, these blankets are foldable by way of a easy system of ropes and pulleys, which permit them to be picked up and raised to make room on the bottom.
Catalan exhibition on the Venice Biennale© Flavio Coddou / IRL
The exhibition additionally has a laboratory known as ‘The Repair Workshop’, which has the participation of scholars from numerous faculties of structure and design the place new community-based residential fashions are proposed, akin to collective kitchens, new reception areas and reuse of empty premises.
The story of the keepers
‘Following the fish’ evokes the story behind the proposal of the Senegalese manteros. Artisanal fishing within the nation on the west coast of Africa was a supply of meals and wealth for the native economic system.
However, the large extraction of fish by Western boats to make feed for fish farms has pressured younger fishermen to depart their nation and journey to Europe in the identical boats they’ve stopped utilizing for fishing, thus fleeing the poverty and starvation generated by colonization and plunder by the good powers of the worldwide north.
silent march
30 folks wearing protest shirts ‘Top Manta’ have made a silent march with out lighting, music or sound this Thursday within the streets of Venice.
The members have transported one of many blankets produced for the exhibition. The marchers will transport one of many blankets produced by Top Manta for the exhibition.
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