2018 Architecture Biennale, Sunyata, Indonesia Pavilion

The national participation of Indonesia at the Arsenale for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia really blew us away. Sunyata: The Poetics of Emptiness is an installation that explores the beauty of empty space as the essence of Freespace.


Anyone who knows the Venice Architecture Biennale, particularly during the preview, is well aware of how crowded the pavilions are, witnesses to a real pilgrimage of industry experts. In a context as fast-paced as this, an installation like the one offered by印度尼西亚is even more impressive. No videos, no images, no colour - just a large space defined by long sheets of soft white paper, hand-sewn together by the curatorial team with some 9,600 stitches, punctuated by circular openings where visitors can stop andlook at the abstract emptinesssymbolised by the pure whiteness of the sheets. And if you concentrate hard enough you can also hear the soundtrack - the sounds of everyday life in Indonesia.
“Enjoy the silence” is the invitation on the long benches alongside the installation that immediately made us think of the Depeche Mode song of the same name, where this contemplation of emptiness is at the centre of the music video, perfectly summing up the atmosphere created bySunyata: The Poetics of Emptiness.
We had a conversation withAry Indrajanto, curator with David Hutama, Adwitya Dimas Satria, Ardy Hartono, Jonathan Aditya Gahari, Johanes Adika Gahari about Indonesia's national participation in this exhibition that conveys the quintessential Freespace,the intangibility of space, which turns out to be a sensation. An installation whose provocative nature matches its elegant, harmonious presentation.
印度尼西亚共和国是总统民主国家，是世界上最大的岛屿国家，拥有17,000多个岛屿，是人口中第四大的国家，拥有超过2.61亿人口。自公元七世纪以来，它具有悠久的历史和传统。一个国家比整个地方更容易了解巴厘岛或龙目地的地方various ethnic, linguistic and religious groups.
It was almost impossible to come up with a建筑传统中的共同点of such a diversified nation to bring to the Venice Biennale as an example of Freespace, not least of which because, historically, space-making was not an urban planning prerogative for the Indonesian archipelago. What's more, Freespace in such a densely populated land is a real luxury.
This led to the choice ofemptinessas the common basis for the research of the Indonesia pavilion curators, who represent its intrinsic value with simple but powerful resources. BecauseSunyata. The Poetics of Emptiness至少让我们陷入了一个空间，而无需分散注意力，我们可以感觉到超越设计和建筑的空间振动，而是成为一种单一和个人的体验，有点像我们提到的视频中。#raybet官网空虚表现为缺乏形式，其追求和创造与爪哇传统保持一致 - 首先是精神上的最重要的。
展览伴随着app and a catalogue with examples of Indonesian architecture- 历史和现代 - 使其变得空虚。因为 ”这里的空虚被理解为一个活跃的实体。在生活中和同时充当杰出机构的奇异性，作为一个要求被征服的空白.”

Christiane Bürklein

16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
印度尼西亚Sunyata的民族参与：空虚的诗学
专员：Ricky Joseph Pesik，Badan Ekonomi Kreatif（Bekraf），印度尼西亚创意经济机构和Ahmad Djuhara -Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia（IAI），印度尼西亚建筑师学院雷竞技下载链接
Curators: Ary Indrajanto, David Hutama, Adwitya Dimas Satria, Ardy Hartono, Jonathan Aditya Gahari, Johanes Adika Gahari
2018年5月25日至11月25日
Arsenale, Venice
Images: 1, 2, 3 ken schluchtmann -diephotodesigner.dee 4, 5 Francesco Galli, courtesy of Biennale di Venezia
Find out more:https://indonesiapavilion.org