Siestario. Pavillion of Argentina
19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Time neither advances nor stops when entering the Argentine Pavilion. The air refreshes; the light becomes subtle, distant. The space invites the pause, stillness. An interruption within the rhythm of the Biennial; a place where the body slides into drowsiness. The siesta, a momentary rupture of the routine as an act of suspension, an opposition to the accelerated life and the demands of productivity. The pavilion, as a collective experience of leisure: a shelter.
Throughout the hall, a silo bag invades the space; decontextualized from its original function, it preserves the essence while redefine its purpose. Its presence evokes a remnant of another reality: a vestige of the Argentine economy, a fragment suspended in memory. The silo becomes a support for sleep, a soft plastic mattress, motionless, where bodies sink.
In the very act of resting, a transition toward sleep begins. In that state, a dreamlike sense permeates the space: desires occupy the walls, suspended in the air. The atmosphere gets transformed into a landscape. Projectors hang from the ceiling, showing diffuse images, like a mist that slides over the place. No exact logic is perceived; there is no obvious order governing its sequence. They are fleeting flashes, barely perceptible, that mix; fragile whispers succeeding each other: what we are, what we desire. The individual fades: the architects and artists have been absorbed by the whole, integrated within the collective.
CREDITS
Commissioner: Alejandra Pecoraro
Curators: Marco Zampieron, Juan Manuel Pachue
Colaborators: Sofía Desuque, Bruno Turri, Sebastian Flosi, Nicolas Flosi, Matias Salomon, Ana Babaya
Renders and video: Brian Ejsmont
Sound Art: Martin Virgili
Visuals: Maximiliano Wille, Hector Cruz
