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Grove, Venice Biennale 2021

Grove is a fragile and beautiful gathering space that offers a vision for inclusive, open building. A soaring, undulating canopy of luminous, shimmering, lace-like clouds embedded with liquid-filled glass vessels hovers above a central projection pool enclosed by a forest of totemic, basket-like columns. An array of custom speakers embedded within this column field forms a multi-channel spatial sound environment by composer Salvador Breed and 4DSOUND of Amsterdam. Whispering voices emerge from cavernous depths, weaving an emotional passage that evokes fragile new life and innocent wonder.

At the core of the installation, a film by London-based Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones projects down into a pool-like screen. Viewers looking into this deep well encounter an almost overwhelmingly intense vision of innumerable worlds falling into chaos and rising again in new life. Inspired by the form language of Beesley’s “living architecture” environments, the film’s intricate geometries move from inert crystalline minerals into surging life forms. Within an astral, dreamlike vision of constant metamorphosis, a child-like being emerges, reflecting the fundamental journey from death into life.

COVID-19 necessitated a complete re-imagining of the original Grove concept. Initially conceived of as a robustly physical, densely interactive environment that built on Beesley’s recent permanent work Meander (located in Cambridge, Canada), it soon became clear that a different type of public installation was required during a global pandemic. So Beesley looked to ways of creating expanded and enhanced physical and virtual experiences by working with collaborators in sound and film. The result is a new type of multimedia installation that re-interprets the interwoven layers and constantly transforming, near-to-life qualities of Beesley’s immersive architectural visions. It is also a direct response to the urgent question posed by the title of Hashim Sarkis’s exhibition.

How will we live together? The vision of future architecture offered by Beesley and his collaborators reveals a transformed built environment that seeks communion with plants, animals, and inert matter alike. Free citizenship was long defined by protective city walls, yet those same walls have also fueled catastrophic changes that befall us now. Instead of the rigid, bounded territories that divide us, can we live in open, constantly exchanging, hovering worlds? Can new scientific paradigms offer a renewal for architecture? Entropy has long seemed the opposite of order, but emerging science suggests it can be redefined as a positive and creative force that seeks maximum freedom and potential. Can a new architecture based on dissipative natural forms, such as waves, clouds, and dunes, create buildings that are both unapologetically fragile and extraordinarily coherent, self-renewing, strong, and resilient? Can precarity co-exist with profoundly restorative and healing qualities? By translating complex, interdependent natural systems into physical and virtual structures and environments, Grove offers a vision of a more inclusive future where we can mesh our bodies, minds, and spirits with our surroundings, breach seemingly unbreachable divides, and create renewed and shared worlds grounded in mutual exchange and empathy.

Grove is open to the public at the Arsenale – one of the main exhibition venues of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from May 22 to November 21, 2021. VIP and Press Pre-opening dates are from May 20 to 21, 2021.

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