TERAM INTELIGERE: INTERSTITIUM

2025

In collaboration with Dejan Todorović and Emir Šehanović

Terram Intelligere: INTERSTITIUM 19th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia Montenegro Pavilion at the 19th Venice Biennale

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This work explores the interactions between the human world and life beyond human influence, transforming the pavilion into a living laboratory of microbiological processes. The installation Terram Intelligere: Interstitium invites visitors to enter the world of microorganisms within floating polycarbonate capsules, where bacterial cultures collected from various locations across Montenegro produce bio-pigments.

These biological elements, prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering at the University of Belgrade, allow for a controlled encounter with living systems, highlighting the complexity and fragility of ecological processes.

The polycarbonate spheres function as liminal spaces between the visible and the hidden. The materiality is modest yet conceptually rich, focused on process rather than final form, while the Montenegrin tradition of dry-stone boundaries (suvomeđe) becomes a metaphor for a space of negotiation between humans, nature, and microbiological processes.

The work interrogates the temporality of the visual and opens a space for an ethic of slow observation. The installation exists as a space in formation—a call to learn how to live with uncertainty and to nurture relationships with the life that surrounds us, as architecture becomes a living organism and a bridge between humans, soil, and the future.