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Paradise has many gates Mosque


Urban and Architectural


The Vancouver Biennale launches its 2018-2020 citywide public art festival this summer—its first installation, unveiled June 20 in the seaside Vanier Park, is Saudi Arabian artist Ajlan Gharem’s Paradise Has Many Gates.

The structure architecturally echoes a traditional mosque though rendered in chain link, making it both airily transparent and ominously evocative of a cage.The dichotomy between form and material evokes the multifaceted conflicts of religious constraint and democratic freedom, embodying the Biennale’s current theme: re-IMAGE-n, which intends to encourage the re-exploration of prevailing belief systems.

Six months after Ajlan Gharem’s Paradise Has Many Gates was unveiled in Vancouver’s beachfront Vanier Park, the little mosque made of chain link and steel pipe began to feel like part of the scenery. In many ways, this installation commissioned by the Vancouver Biennale acts as a device to reveal landscape, framing views of sky, water, and mountains that revel in Canadian nature.

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الموقع

Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada

المعماري

Ajlan Gharem

تاريخ البناء

2020

الرسومات المعمارية

الخريطة

Urban and Architectural

The Vancouver Biennale launches its 2018-2020 citywide public art festival this summer—its first installation, unveiled June 20 in the seaside Vanier Park, is Saudi Arabian artist Ajlan Gharem’s Paradise Has Many Gates.

The structure architecturally echoes a traditional mosque though rendered in chain link, making it both airily transparent and ominously evocative of a cage.The dichotomy between form and material evokes the multifaceted conflicts of religious constraint and democratic freedom, embodying the Biennale’s current theme: re-IMAGE-n, which intends to encourage the re-exploration of prevailing belief systems.

Six months after Ajlan Gharem’s Paradise Has Many Gates was unveiled in Vancouver’s beachfront Vanier Park, the little mosque made of chain link and steel pipe began to feel like part of the scenery. In many ways, this installation commissioned by the Vancouver Biennale acts as a device to reveal landscape, framing views of sky, water, and mountains that revel in Canadian nature.

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