Exhibition Review: Chicago Architecture Biennial
An installation by MASS Design Group with Hank Willis Thomas displays the personal belongings from victims of gun violence. Photo by Kendall McCaugherty
?This Marble Was Quarried and Assembled by Exploited Labor.? So reads a sign within steps of the entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center and the third installment of the city?s Architecture Biennial. This sobering acknowledgement is one of several?each strategically placed throughout the four-storey building to awaken the silenced history of its magnificent spaces and the deplorable labour practices through which they were procured.
The Biennial?s theme, ?…and other such stories,? convenes a cross-section of architects, artists, collectives, and researchers from twenty countries to examine globally pressing and spatially implicated challenges. The result is a searing critique of architecture?s ongoing entanglement with neoliberal economics, mass-incarceration, and environmental degradation. These trends, symptomatic of unhinged urban growth decades in the making, are cast not only as threats to the planet and to our collective well-being, but as professional blind spots in need of critical reassessment. The Biennial is a call to action. Occupying the Center?s central lobby, an installation by MASS Design Group in partnership with artist Hank Willis Thomas powerfully draws attention to America?s gun violence epidemic. Four glass-enclosed memorial ?homes? display an affecting selection of victims? personal belongings: ...
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