The exhibition “Trouble in Paradise” in the Polish Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale 2021, is accompanied by a book featuring essays by Plato Issaias & Hamed Khosravi, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Andrea Alberto Dutto, Katarzyna Kajdanek, Łukasz Moll, photo essay by Jacenty Dędek, as well as texts by the PROLOG +1 team, a photographic “Panorama of the Polish countryside” and visualisations of the projects. The book is available as a digital download from www.labiennale.art.pl.
“Trouble in Paradise is a critical study covering the socio-spatial elements of rural areas in Poland. The aim of the curatorial project prepared for the Polish Pavilion is to question the previous understanding of the urban-rural opposition by placing it in a multidisciplinary perspective. In this context, the exhibition pays particular attention to the theoretical gaps in the elaboration of the long-standing migration from the city to the countryside. The curatorial project proposes a holistic view of the territory as a space in which forms of settlement, types of work, lifestyles, family relations, mutual relationships, but also socio-political conflicts shape how we live together.” Plato Issaias, Hamed Khosravi
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Book in Polish
