The Shape of What Remains exhibition
The Shape of What Remains is an exhibition project presented by Aea: Culture Initiative at the Venice Design Biennial. The exhibition takes its title from American writer Lisa C. Taylor’s novel about the slow return to life after tragic loss. It consists of six compartments shaped by the lived experiences of émigré women – all of whom, for various reasons, had to leave their homes and are processing this loss through creative practice.
Silvia reconstructs an old house. Lisa collects antique objects once broken and repairs them. Professional painters Kimia and Alisa improvise music in a makeshift studio. Nanka cultivates a garden on uncertain ground. Olena discovers her grandmother’s tapestry, abandoned midway.
Sarah, in a foreign city, walks its hills, studying vanishing native flora.
Spectral by Production Type is in charge of the exhibition’s typography (including the exhibition booklet that the visitors have to bind by themselves, while the name of the art show is set in a slightly modified version of TXT Long Hand by Illustration Ink.
The exhibition booklet was left unbound so that visitors could pick the stories they wanted to take home and bind the booklet themselves in the exhibition space (all binding materials were provided).
