Tomás Saraceno Spider/Web Pavilion 7: Oracle Readings, Weaving Arachnomancy, Synanthropic Futures: At-ten(t)sion to invertebrate rights!, 2019
Architecture, spider silk, carbon fiber, microphones, heliostat lighting, research material, printed ephemera, mobile application
6,68 x 6,68 m (pavilion)
A site-specific installation conceived by Tomás Saraceno for the 58th Venice Biennale, the pavilion hosts a large-scale hybrid spider web woven by different spider species forming a floating landscape inside an open carbon fiber frame. The outside walls of the pavilion are covered with a visual specifically conceived and produced for the Venice Biennale. Taking inspiration from various form of spider divination from different parts of the world, the pavilion features also an interactive, site-specific Arachnomancy Cards Deck.