VENICE: From nomads to deforestation, this year's Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on Africa and the impact of colonization on the development of a continent undergoing the most rapid urbanization in the world. READ HERE:
Away from the national pavilions, the main exhibition put together by Biennale curator Lesley Lokko shines a light on the enduring impact of the colonizing Europeans who upended traditional ways of life.Mounir Ayoub, a 40-year-old Tunisian architect based in Geneva, has long been interested in the phenomenon in Tunisia of forced settlement.
But urban and economic growth has been not only at the expense of Africa's vast deserts but also the continent's forests.Sammy Baloji, a photographic artist from Lubumbashi, a city in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo, charted the depletion of his country's rainforests in his project for the exhibition.
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