A Roof for Silence | Venice
Hala Wardé’s architecture goes through words. To the question “How will we live together?” raised by the 2020 Venice International Architecture Biennale curator Hashim Sarkis, Hala Wardé responds with “silence”.
The architect imagined a timeless pavilion, a dream of hope for her stricken country. First inspired by 16 circular oil paintings by artist Etel Adnan, “A Roof for Silence” questions spaces of silence through architecture, painting, music, poetry, video and photography. The notion of eternity fills the installation with its century-old olive trees of Bchaaleh photographed by Fouad Elkoury and filmed by Alain Fleischer. These pillars of time plunge the viewer into “the sensitive experience of emptiness so necessary to architecture” according to Hala Wardé.
In this publication, the installation is retold in 52 pages, through inspirational images, texts, technical drawings and on-site photographs, bound together in a play of different kinds and length of papers.
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