Lokko’s Force Majeure display takes over the main pavilion of La Biennale. As Lokko wrote, “The balance has shifted. Updating the statistics of a profession that still skews older and whiter means that a host of new contributors are showing work that the world should appreciate. Nearly half are educators and work in small practices of five or fewer people. Gender representation is split about evenly, and the average age of participants is 43, lower than in prior showings. (Architecture still lags a bit behind art: The first African curator of the art biennale was Okwui Enwezor who curated the main show, All the World’s Futures, in 2015.) Before even setting foot in Venice, Lokko’s intentions are clear from numbers alone: Of the 89 participants, more than 50 percent are from Africa or identify as part of the African diaspora. Lokko is the first person of African descent and the fourth woman to curate the architecture biennale. Rather than bottling up the state of architectural discourse today, this version of the Venice Architecture Biennale succeeds in showing us where we could be headed. Seen from a North American perspective, the work transcends the contemporary feeling of emergency to arrive at a deeper level of personal exploration and community engagement.

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