Giovanna Silva / Niemeyer4ever collage Laetitia Gendre & Miram Rohde

Laetitia Gendre & Miram Rohde

intervened and ultimately tried to pedestal the phenomena as a history to believe in

drawn together into a coherent structure

which she showed in Madagascar (October 2017) and Argos Brussels (May 2018)

Since at least Romanticism such ruins—almost always in stone—have garnered a level of appreciation that can be considered connoisseurship

Giovanna Silva / Niemeyer4ever collage Laetitia Gendre & Miram RohdeIn the early 1960s Oscar Niemeyer designed a complex in Tripoli that was intended to serve as a large exhibition centre and to be part of the Tripoli International Fair. The location used to be an immense vast orchard, full of oranges. Now here lies an abandoned complex of 15 structures, including which include an outdoor theater, a concert hall, an atrium, an arch, a heliport and lodgings. The site is an example of futurist modernist architecture,