EXHIBITIONS

- ECHO CITY, 10th BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE, VENICE
- PERSISTENCE WORKS, SHEFFIELD

ECHO CITY, 10th BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE, VENICE
10 September - 19th November 2006
British Pavilion, giardini di castello

Encounters were part of  Echo City, the showcase exhibit at the British Pavilion at the tenth  Biennale of Architecture, Venice. The exhibit was conceived and designed by Architect Jeremy Till along with Ian Anderson, Jim Prevett , Tim Etchells, Hugo Glendinning, Martyn Ware and Sarah Wigglesworth.

There were four side rooms in the pavilion and each room reflected urban experience at a particular architectural and social scale; either 1:1, 1:100, 1:10,000 or 1: 10,000,000. Encounters were responsible for designing the 1:1 room, reflecting the intimate scale that we have been working on.

We’re very excited to have been part of this event, exploring how the three shop projects could be represented within the exhibition. We didn’t want to literally recreate the shops or create an exhibition that was too far away from them either. Our exhibition therefore contained traces, echoes of the Sharrow shops; the stories, objects, journeys, toy animals that we had collected in Sheffield, as well as a new invitation to visitors in Venice to participate to leave their own trace. It was important for us that this invitation was at the heart of the exhibition.

 

 

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PERSISTENCE WORKS, SHEFFIELD

The residency at the empty Pops Minimarket on Sharrow Lane culminated in an exhibition at Persistence Works, Yorkshire Artspace. Below are some images from the exhibition:

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