Winner, FACULTY DESIGN AWARD, ACSA Architectural Education Awards
Honoree, BEST OF YEAR AWARDS 2021, Interior Design Magazine
Year: 2019 - 2021 (Built)
Type: Exhibition Design + Installation.
Area: 6,000 sqf
Client: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV).
Venue: Pavilion of Turkey, 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Location: Sale d'Armi, Arsenale, Venice.
NEMESTUDIO project team: Neyran Turan (partner-in-charge), Ryan Shin, Ian Erickson (initial stage).
Production team: WeExhibit; coordinated by Margherita Muzzi (WeExhibit) and Selen Erkal (İKSV).
Pavilion of Turkey is curated by Neyran Turan. Assistant curators: Ece Emanetoğlu, Melis Uğurlu, Samet Mor, and Betsy Clifton. Editorial assistant: Ian Erickson. Graphic design: Paleworks (Yağmur Ruzgar + Ozan Akkoyunlu). Coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV).
Press Coverage/Reviews: Metropolis, Elle Decor, Domus, Architects' Journal, Metalocus, Tracés, The Architects' Newspaper, Detail Magazine, Inexhibit, e-flux, ArchDaily, World Architecture, Açık Radyo, NTV Radyo, ArtAsiaPacific, Gazete Oksijen, Art Dealer Street, Miliyet Mimarlik, Daily Sabah, TRTWorld.
Four Dioramas is the physical exhibition of Architecture as Measure, the Pavilion of Turkey at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. Designed by NEMESTUDIO, the 6,000-square-foot exhibition space consists of four dioramas and a large table. The exhibition project provokes a renewed planetary imagination by examining the politics and nuances of seemingly mundane aspects of architectural construction and juxtaposing them with their planetary dimensions, such as geographies of resource extraction, material supply chains, maintenance, and care in Turkey. The exhibition is presented through a physical installation, an online publication, and storytelling.
Aligned with this main premise and content, the exhibition design uses four dioramas that stage both generic architectural sites with banal details and specific mise-en-scènes of an imaginary story set in Turkey. Each diorama features a wallpaper drawing by NEMESTUDIO that serves as a backdrop for the depicted scene. Visitors can walk inside the dioramas as if they are in the interior space of an architectural model. As the dioramas collide the architectural, the planetary, the banal, and the spectacular, ideas of foreground and background are constantly flipped and negotiated.
Photo credits:
Images 1, 5-6, 9, 13-15, 18: Photo by RMphotostudio.
Images 3-4, 8, 10, 12, 17: Photo by Danto Production.