The OUTSIDER team's participation in the Biennale technically consists of the construction of a textile pavilion in the square, anchored to the sculptures in the shape of horses and eagles that are at the top of the entrance. The pavilion is made up of tension cables anchored to the sculptures and a spike to which these cables are anchored. This installation is carried out by the technical arm of LaBienal to guarantee stability and anchoring with the associated engineer. Before and during the Biennale, the OUTSIDER team will coordinate training on these cables of a cover, made up of textile scraps purchased at the Kataangwa market. Several bundles will be purchased, which will be analyzed in the workshop, and will be sewn on-site to form the textile cover (jaima-flag concept), which will increase in size during the biennial, with the artists working on its creation, counting with the participation of the attending public. The pavilion is built together, but it is never finished. Whoever wants to sew a part. Being outdoors, weather conditions, wind or rain, can be agents that intervene in the process. Being a symbolic cover, a piece of fabric sewn with another, even with the utmost rigor, the impermeability of the cover seems secondary, and it can get wet and dry in the sun. The cover fragments will be sewn and securely consolidated to the guy wires. The perimeter of each piece that makes up the awning must necessarily be self-supporting and resistant so that its own weight does not open the seams. The sum of fragments consolidates the cover, which is considered as a process, a fragment of a greater possibility. The disassembly and transfer will take place once the public part of the Biennial is over. Some relevant pieces, the most successful, will be packaged for later use in other contexts. Repatriated and traveling mini-pavilions.
A team of four people will travel to Lagos, Nigeria on January 15, 2024, to prepare the OUTSIDER project at the 4th Art and Architecture Biennial, to be held in Tawafa Balewa Square, along with eleven other participating teams. The biennial is held outdoors and is made up of twelve pavilions different in concept and form, which are united by the premise of curating, in relation to the concept of REFUGE. Global museography or micro-urbanism, fair or expo type, is carried out by AKETÉ and its associates. The official opening is on February 3 and the Biennial will last a week.
