The Republic of Kosovo presents Lulebora nuk çel më. Emerging Assemblages at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. The installation combines local soil materials with a hanging olfactory calendar to create a sensorial exploration of Kosovan fieldwork. Fieldwork with farmers reveals shifting crops—traditional wheat, peppers, grapes, and chamomile struggle while kiwi and figs take root. The project links agricultural shifts to a rupture in embodied seasonal knowledge, exposing the fragility of situated forms of knowledge and indicating possibilities for recalibration. Material choices prioritize soils and smells that resist capture by predictive models to materialize ecological tensions.
The Republic of Kosovo brings this year to the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale an exhibition titled Lulebora nuk çel më. Emerging Assemblages. The exhibit was commissioned by the National Gallery of Kosovo and curated by the architect, interdisciplinary designer, and researcher Erzë Dinarama. Reflecting on the country's shifting agricultural landscapes in the context of ecological uprooting and embodied knowledge systems under climate pressure, the installation offers a sensorial exploration of Kosovan fieldwork.
Seeking to offer a sensorial account of rupture and reconfiguration in local fields, the Emerging Assemblages project traces a transition in which longstanding crops, such as wheat, peppers, grapes, and chamomile, struggle, while new ones, like kiwi and figs, take root. Behind the installation lies the idea that this agricultural shift reflects a rupture in the field of knowledge, meaning a deeper disconnection between sensory cues and seasonal markers that farmers have relied on for decades.
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