SUSAN SALINGER

In October 2023, my friend and collaborator, Carl George called me about doing a proposal for the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture for the Canadian Council of the Arts. Carl sent me the guidelines and photos of the Canadian pavilion and I got to work setting up a mock interior of the pavilion. As I imagined it, it would be an immersive experience, where viewers would walk through an enormous sculpture made of curving fiber mesh. Carl would shoot the architectural videos and stills that would be projected onto the sculpture and to complete the project, he proposed that Canadians remotely upload images and videos of their own houses which would be projected onto the mesh sculpture in real time.