The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale

25/11/2013. Exhibition. [Lisbon] Portugal. 12/09 > 15/12/2013
metalocus, ALEX DURO

Within the Lisbon Architecture Triennal about we have been publishing, today we bring you an exhibition with works from several teams which reflects on the day to day objects and our relation with them. The exhibition, which takes place in the Pombai Palace, it could be visited until mid December.

Sala da Nação – Embaixada de Terra Nenhuma by Paulo Moreira & Kiluanji Kia Henda. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Catarina Botelho.

Sala da Nação – Embaixada de Terra Nenhuma by Paulo Moreira & Kiluanji Kia Henda. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Catarina Botelho.

In Dreams I Walk With You by Noam Toran & Onkar Kular. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Catarina Botelho.

Slowly Ceiling by Alex Schweder. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Luke Hayes.

The Planetary Sculpture Supper Club by Center for Genomic Gastronomy. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Catarina Botelho.

Sonda Espacial L.Q.F.U.B. by Friendly Fire. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Luke Hayes.

Games To Lose Control by Carsten Höller. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Luke Hayes.

Universal Declaration of Urban Rights by Zuloark. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Catarina Botelho.

Sala da Nação – Embaixada de Terra Nenhuma by Paulo Moreira & Kiluanji Kia Henda. The Real and Other Fictions at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal. Photograph © Catarina Botelho.

The Real and Other Fictions takes place in the Pombal Palace, a building that has had diverse uses and programs through the course of its history. From residence to embassy, it hosted numerous events and situations. The exhibition brings back the past uses of the building through spatial interventions that foster encounters between the palace and the visitor.

The preoccupation underlying this exhibition has to do with the ambiguity and the paradoxes beneath the practice of hospitality, with the laws and norms that define and influence the ways in which architecture is used.

The subjects and situations generated by the works presented destabilize the rules and compromises inherent to the occupation and use of space.

They raise questions about the places in which we move everyday, the ways in which we relate to them and how they make us relate to the other. In the intimacy that they establish between place and occupant, each work practices a form of hospitality.

Text.- Lisbon Architecture Triennal.