Tropical Modernism gets the spotlight at the V&A's special Venice Biennale exhibition this May

London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) has shared details of its new Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa exhibition that will be included in the upcoming 2023 Venice Biennale in May. The show is co-organized with the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and will be on view as a special project in the Applied Arts Pavilion until the Biennale ends in late November. Together they will present an analysis of modern British architecture’s contributions first to colonial power and later to the post-Independence political movement that shaped countries in West Africa after 1957. It will feature a multi-channel film installation and showcase selections from the AA’s defunct Department of Tropical Architecture, along with twelve key projects. This is a very prescient historical companion to curator Lesley Lokko’s theme of Africa as a “laboratory of the future,” and will travel to the UK in 2024 as an expanded exhibition at the V&A’s London galleries in 2024.Read the full post on Bustler