for Eliott Grunewald
blocco
for ECAL
for Lineto
with Thomas Le Provost
for Gavillet & Cie
for Gavillet & Cie
for Jonathan Hares
An exhibition presenting the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy" in Muharraq, Bahrain. The project documents a culturally-led urban development effort: the rehabilitation of architectural and urban heritage, the conservation of the last original shoreline and three oyster beds, and the perpetuation of the pearling narrative through an incremental process that continuously adapts to the challenges of a living city.
The exhibition brings together models, objects, artifacts, mock-ups, drawings and conversations, freely juxtaposed on a lime plaster platform recalling the walls of Muharraq. It explores the tension between memory, identity, natural resources and contemporary urban life (can pearls, oysters, coral stones, cars and humans still sustainably cohabit?).
Commissioned by the Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities, curated by Noura Al Sayeh and Ghassan Chemali, with contributions from Studio Anne Holtrop, Christian Kerez, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Bureau Bas Smets, Studio Gionata Rizzi, Valerio Olgiati, and the Pearling Path Team.



with Tancrède Ottiger
for Journee
with Thomas Le Provost
for Jonathan Hares
with Maximilien Pellegrini
for ECAL
for Sylvan Lanz
for Gavillet & Cie
with Rober Huber
for ECAL





































































