Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving a platform to voices that have long been silenced at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened Saturday, the first ever curated by an African, featuring a preponderance of work by Africans and the African diaspora. The 18th architectural Biennale, titled “The Laboratory of the Future,” explores decolonization and decarbonization, topics about which Africans have much to say, Lokko said, citing the long exploitation of the continent for both human and environmental resources. A view of "Coastal Imaginaries" installation at the Denmark pavilion, at the Biennale International Architecture exhibition, in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) “The Black body was Europe’s first unit of energy,”...
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