Llim. An organism by Lara Fluxà. Curated by Oriol Fontdevila. Biennale di Venecia

LLIM (silt) is not a project but a living organism that stems from water, glass, and other materials. LLIM is, simultaneously, a sculptural assembly, a landscape of organic shapes, and a display of materials. LLIM is not a site-specific outline: it doesn’t adapt to the reality of Venice, it actually dilutes Venice identity into its materials. LLIM takes Venice water and makes it circulate real time. LLIM reveals Venice situation with its perpetual unstable balance between solid and liquid, water and land. LLIM focuses on the handling of mud, the silt from which the lagoon was made and Venice was built. It is an unfamiliar issue that is not part of the Venice cliché, even if it is crucial for the city’s subsistence.

[Comissioner: Institut Ramón Llull, Barcelona / Curator: Oriol Fontdevila / Artist: Lara Fluxà / Photography: Violeta Mayoral / Production manager: Xavi Torrent / Website: Iago Barreiro]

Exhibition, Identity, Communication, Editorial, Website

[Identity]

LLIM graphics play with the unfolding of words and the notion of reflection. Its subtle seclusion favours the dilution of knowledge-production standards. Between the monogram and the imagotype, Llim graphics evoke Venice canals, on the one side, and an alchemic symbol, a type of code unintelligible for beginners, on the other.

[Publication]

Designed as an artist book and not as a catalogue, the publication is part of LLIM, it is not a description of the project. It is some sort of logbook that expands the work process; it puts the organism in dialogue with a myriad of entities coming from multiple latitudes and temporalities.

3 booklets (IT/ENG/CAT), 170 × 240 cm, 64 pp. Printed in press paper (55gr.). Edition of 15.000 copies.

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[Website]

The website translates the concept and experimental nature of the exhibition publication and identity into an interactive home page that enhances the idea of multiple layers, process and sediment. The website also functions as a virtual archive of the project. The printed publication of the exhibition is transferred to digital format in the most natural way possible, respecting its identity and original character. Every time you enter the home page, different compositions of the images are generated, but without losing coherence.