Francelle Cane: GD Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Francelle Cane and Marija Marić's Down to Earth project has been selected to design the Luxembourg pavilion at the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture.

The project, which centres on the question of extra-terrestrial resources, their exploitation and the narratives that underlie the resulting economy, was selected for the both current and speculative nature of the theme, the clarity of the subject, the precision of the reflections, sourced and referenced, and the social issues it raises. The directness of the message, supported by an understated scenography, linked around a model of the Moon, a collection of essays "to take away", and three narrative videos, must allow the Biennial public to enter into the subject.

The project highlights a subject that remains invisible to our eyes through a critical approach, raises the question of the resources of the earth's soil at different levels, but above all poses the question of the future world that we can make by pushing away from the Earth, the limits of the spaces colonised and exploited by man.

The directness of the message, supported by an understated scenography, linked around a model of the Moon, a collection of essays "to take away", and three narrative videos, must allow the Biennial public to enter into the subject.