Amorim Cork (Porto)

By eating, we digest territories.

At the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, due to open on 19 May, visitors to the Spanish Pavilion will have the opportunity to embark on a journey into architectures that feed us, from the domestic laboratories of our own kitchens to the vast operational landscapes that nourish our cities. Curated by Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña, FOODSCAPES will survey Spain’s agro-architectural context – Europe’s nutritional engine – to address issues of global scope, presenting an audiovisual project of five short films, an archive in the form of a recipe book, and a public program of conversations, debates, events, and collective research.

At a time when debates on energy are more pertinent than ever, food remains in the background, yet the way we produce, distribute, and consume it mobilizes our societies, shapes our metropolises, and transforms our geographies more radically than any other energy source. After analyzing our food systems and the architectures that build them, FOODSCAPES looks to the future to explore other possible models, of the kind that have the potential to feed the world without devouring the planet.

Curators of FOODSCAPES Pavilion: Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña