The curatorship has been the result of having convened, for the first time, an anonymous public competition for the curatorship of the Spanish Pavilion, with a jury of experts who chose
Uncertainty as the winning proposal. Under this motto, the Pavilion presents a selection of 34 Projects, collected in turn by the team through an open call, and to which 466 proposals were submitted.
Uncertainty shows architecture of social impact from different disciplines, providing new reflections and ways of exercising a trade that has known how to evolve to adapt to all the dimensions and needs of a society in constant change.
A very heterogeneous selection of proposals that value the creative process over the finished iconic piece, processes executed in a multidisciplinary way and with a clear positive social impact.
Many of the proposals are projects that are not recognized at first glance as built architecture, emphasizing that architecture has transcended its historical role of building, adapting and mixing with other disciplines such as music, poetry, education, agriculture, cinema, dance, video games, tourism and using new forms of communication, such as the meme.
In the words of the curators, the exhibition of the Pavilion for this Biennial does not admit a specific answer to Sarkis's question, but rather invites to generate infinite questions, which, however, keep an implicit certainty: the future will be together or it will not be.
The youth of the architects who would curate Uncertainty (all 4 are close to thirty) also allows taking a generational photograph of the profession: the trajectory that each of them has followed, with their expectations and demands, builds a message about adaptation to uncertain contexts, and to the transversal role of architecture within the common objective of social welfare.
The opening was attended by Mr. Francisco David Lucas Parrón, Secretary General of Urban Agenda and Housing, Mr. Iñaqui Carnicero, General Director of Urban Agenda and Architecture, Mr. Guzmán Ignacio Palacio Fernández, Director of Cultural and Scientific Relations of the AECID, Mr. José Andrés Torres Mora President of Acción Cultural Española, Ms. Isabel Izquierdo Peraile, Director of Programming of Acción Cultural Española, Mr. Alfonso Dastis, Ambassador of Spain in Italy and San Marino, Mr. Ruggero Sonino, Honorary Consul of Spain in Venice, as well as the Spanish architect Mr. Rafael Moneo, awarded this year the Golden Lion for career at the Venice Biennale.
