Dutch Pavilion invites you to explore a Narnia-like locker room
Orange lockers open to reveal secret rooms, windows, videos and images inside The Netherlands' Venice Biennale Pavilion, in an exhibition that explores the future of physical labour.
Called Work, Body, Leisure, the exhibition in the Dutch Pavilion appears to comprise a single room lined on all sides by lockers.
But as visitors pull open the doors, they discover a range of projects presented in different mediums, from simple photographs to installations that fill entire rooms.
The projects were selected by curator Marina Otero Verzier, director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut, to show how humanity will be transformed in an age when robots are able to take on many jobs traditionally carried out by humans.
"We're fascinated by these transformations of labour in the future, and also the transformations of architecture and the bodies that live in that architecture," explained Otero Verzier, who also features in Dezeen's new documentary film about drones, Elevation. "The pavilion charts a journey through these different spaces. On one hand they seem familiar and even banal, yet we think they are the core spaces to look at when we think about the future of labour and what our cities could be," she told Dezeen.
Otero Verzier chose to create a locker room, as these spaces ? found in most factories, offices and gyms ? are places where people's bodies are changed, ready for physical activity.
They are coloured orange, as this is the shade often used to symb...
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