Rituals of Solitude - výstava v Galerii VI PER

Gallery VI PER cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition Rituals of Solitude and the accompanying presentation by the exhibition curators.
In the summer of 2020, a group of twelve architects completed a week-long artistic residency, during which they were housed in individual rooms of a dilapidated house on a small island in the Venetian lagoon: one per room, in complete solitude.
The house was almost an exact replica of what was previously considered to be an unrealized project by American architect John Hejduk: The House for the Inhabitant Who Refused to Participate.
The replica of the House for the Inhabitant Who Refused to Participate, built in the 1970s on a private island by countess di Tesserata – without Hejduk's knowledge – was immediately threatened with demolition, as the new owners wanted to replace it with a luxury glamping resort. However, the creators of the Unfolding Pavilion project reached an agreement with the owners that allowed for the temporary habitation of the house for the purpose of realizing twelve site-specific installations during the weekly artistic residency. The only condition was that the project's outcome remain secret until the moment of the house's demolition. This agreement was honored, and the project proceeded as planned; unfortunately, in December 2020, the house was demolished.
The remarkable story of the replica of the House for the Inhabitant Who Refused to Participate by John Hejduk is at the core of the project Rituals of Solitude, a transmedia exhibition in three acts, curated by Daniel Tudor Munteanu and Davide Tommaso Ferrando. It was first presented on the occasion of the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2021.
The traveling exhibition Rituals of Solitude, conceived during the global lockdown, explores the spread of false news, the inversion of the traditional relationship between private and public space, the paradoxical rituals through which homes are inhabited, the ways in which visual technologies are domesticated into tools of self-presentation and connection, the accumulation, fetishization, and exhibition of objects in domestic interiors; and, beyond that, the states of solitude arising from enforced isolation.