Projected toward tomorrow, the Ukrainian project focuses on the fundamental role played by narrative in delineating the boundaries of a protected space in which to unleash a creative impulse aimed at reconstruction.
After more than four hundred days of war, how is it possible to find a new system of coordinates that allows beauty to manifest itself?
Developed in two areas, the Ukrainian project looks towards the future. The Pavilion at the Arsenale presents a claustrophobic and dark space as a symbol of an abandoned place that becomes vital for designing survival plans.
The installation at the Esedra Space in the Giardini consists of mounds of earth covered in grass, with passable paths outlined at its center, reproducing the fortification system of 10th-century Kiev, reactivated following the Russian aggression.
Faced with a present of destruction, the country wonders if and how it is possible to safeguard a vision of hope by already finding a safe place today to unleash a creative impulse aimed at reconstruction.
