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VDNH_hall FUTURE (Russian Pavilion in Venice)

Sergey Kuznetsov, Ekaterina Pronicheva, Semyon Mikhailovsky

Russia - Biennale Architettura 2016

Russia - Biennale Architettura 2016

The hall represents laboratory of the future. It offers visitors, inspired by the impressions and knowledge obtained at the exhibition, to model a perfect world of the future themselves, being given a kind of constructing set with social meanings where shape and color determine particular function - education, entertainment, sports and recreation, etc. and the thoughts of experts in different spheres about an ideal world displayed on the screens with subtitles.
The walls, floor, ceiling - all in white. Shelves on the walls of the room are black. Details of the “construction set” are placed at the shelves.
In the center of the room there is a table with “construction set” pieces placed in a chaotic manner. This table invites visitors to participate.
One of the walls represents the map of VDNH constructed with the use of “construction set” units. In this case, shelves and details at first sight put in chaotic manner, in fact bring a sense.
Construction set units on another walls are arranged by color, shape and function, but bring no common sense.
These shelves also contain one or several monitors, broadcasting the video recording the dialog with experts from various fields, accompanied by subtitles, with there subjective opinion and an answer to the question what constitutes an ideal world nowadays.

Details

  • Title: VDNH_hall FUTURE (Russian Pavilion in Venice)
  • Creator: Sergey Kuznetsov, Ekaterina Pronicheva, Semyon Mikhailovsky

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