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VENEDİK BİENALİ 18. ULUSLARARASI MİMARLIK SERGİSİ TÜRKİYE PAVYONU’NDA YER ALACAK PROJE BELİRLENDİ

The project to be featured at the Turkey Pavilion of the 18th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition has been determined

The project titled "Ghost Stories: The Sack Theory of Architecture," curated by Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş, has been selected to be exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale Turkey Pavilion.

The two-stage open call to determine the project to be featured at the Venice Biennale 18th International Architecture Exhibition Turkey Pavilion has concluded. The Selection Committee, after evaluating a total of 24 projects, chose the project titled Ghost Stories: The Sack Theory of Architecture, curated by Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş, to be exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale Turkey Pavilion, which will be open to visitors from May 20 to November 26, 2023.

The Selection Committee members stated that they chose the Ghost Stories: The Sack Theory of Architecture project because it brings an original perspective to architectural and urban debates, “focuses on a current and important issue both in Turkey and worldwide, proposes rich content and research methods, and develops an area of interest spanning from building to urbanism with its multi-scale approach.”

The Ghost Stories: The Sack Theory of Architecture project aims to question the conventional images and approaches related to buildings and to reveal hopeful proposals for the future. Based on the famous writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s Sack Theory, and drawing strength from the profound changes in the architectural world over the last twenty years, the exhibition content suggests listening to the ghost stories of unused buildings instead of focusing on heroic structures standing on pedestals. The collective documentation of a current archive consisting of these buildings found in almost every city in Turkey, and research on how these structures—considered as a “laboratory of the future”—can be transformed instead of being demolished or abandoned to their fate, form the main themes of the project.

The exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale Turkey Pavilion is organized under the coordination of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, with contributions from the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and under the auspices of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs.