Lorenzo Pezzani

Lorenzo Pezzani was the first Delfina Foundation resident at the Decolonizing Architecture studio in Bethlehem. He is a researcher based in London. After having studied architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland, he engaged, in 2008, in the activities of the Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths) where he obtained an MA and where he is currently a PhD candidate. His practice-based research projects, moving across diverse disciplines and media, have taken various forms (video and audio pieces, installations, publications) and have been exhibited, among other places, at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow and at the 4th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. Lorenzo Pezzani has worked as assistant curator for Manifesta 7 and has contributed to various journals and magazines. His current work looks at how the afterlife of various ?«things?» (buildings, monuments, migrant bodies and images) could enhance, through profanation, the production of a new postcolonial ecology. He is also contributing to the ongoing project ??¹Model court???, which analyses the courtroom as an apparatus that produces legal ???truths?? by means of various protocols of spacial and aural performativity

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Decolonizing architecture, or, “how to inhabit your enemy›s house?”
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