Brazil is awarded at the Venice Architecture Biennale

The Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes, announced this Saturday (20) that, for the first time, Brazil won the Golden Lion, an award at the Venice Architecture Biennale, in Italy. The event is considered one of the most important and traditional in the world. IT’S FROM BRAZIL! 🇺🇸 For the first time in history, the Brazilian Pavilion won the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale! Congratulations to the exhibition “Terra”, which brings our origins with so much strength and poetry, and to the architects and curators Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares! — Margareth Menezes (@MagaAfroPop) May 20, 2023 The portfolio headed by the minister is supporting the Terra exhibition, at the Brazil pavilion at the biennial, and is produced by architects and curators Gabriela Matos and Paulo Tavares. The exhibition portrays the Brazil of the Xingu, of the Brazilian Amazon. The curators suggest thinking of the country as ground and territory, providing a direct experience with indigenous and quilombola territories. The Brazilian Pavilion “Terra”, curated by Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares, won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. – Photo: Matteo de Mayda. The Ministry of Culture invested BRL 1.5 million in the exhibition with the objective of “following the agenda for the reconstruction of international cultural exchange”. The 18th edition of the biennial has as its theme The Laboratory of the Future and presents the African continent as responsible for shaping the world to come. The show also has nine parallel events in Venice.

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