JAMES BECKETT AT VENICE BIENNALE 2015

We have the pleasure to announce that James Beckett (ZA,NL) will be featured as one of the guests of artist Vincent Meessen and curator Katerina Gregos for the exhibition Personne et Les autres in the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. 

James Beckett will show his work Negative Space: A Scenario Generator for Clandestine Building in Africa (2015).

This new work consists of an automated storage and retrieval machine (such as those used in warehouses and pharmacies), reconfigured to arrange wooden building blocks to create portraits of specific Modernist buildings across Africa. These small models, however, reference not the actual buildings, but rather their negative spaces, alluding to the buildings’ potential for illegal expansion of living or workspaces.