Venice Biennale Architettura 2023: RHAEL ‘LIONHEART’ CAPE

Those With Walls for Windows is a meditation and exploration into the “laws of freedom.” Through poetry, an art form with its own relationship to freedom and control, the work investigates the space of diaspora, a place where forgetting, remembering, and reimagining act as architectural devices in the urban planning of the diasporic psyche. For LionHeart, carnival is a space of recovery and emancipation; a place of cultural and psychological real estate; a space to dwell, rest, repair, grow, and evolve. Those With Walls for Windows is an aural–visual– textual–oral tapestry that uses performance, rhythm and erasure as structuring devices, a ‘call to arms’ for sonic way finders who seek Carnival’s joyous, redemptive liberation. Technical collaborators // Patrick Bedeau, Charles Rare, Michael Adeyeye Team // Melo-Zed, Theophilius O. Bailey, Delores Oblitey, Pedro S. Küster With the additional support of // 180 Studios, InDetail Studios, A-COLD-WALL*, British Film Institute, New School Represents, African Futures Institute