'Dancing Before The Moon' in best designs of 2023

The British Pavillion at this years 18th Venice Architecture Biennale was chosen by Charlene Prempeh and Lewis Gilbert of creative agency A Vibe Called Tech:

“There is reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend,” was the James Baldwin quote that served as the provocation for Dancing Before the Moon, the British Pavilion presentation at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. Individually the collective of curators are brilliant – Jayden Ali designed the hugely celebrated Fashion Masculinities at the V&A, Joseph Henry is currently the Loeb fellow at Harvard, Meneesha Kellay is the senior curator, contemporary at the V&A and Sumitra Upham is head of programmes at the Crafts Council – and together, there was a certain alchemy that made the exploration of spatial practice for diasporic communities both gleeful and momentous.

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Image: Thunder and Şimşek a large-scale installation by Jayden Ali at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023.