Brain Dead at the Venice Biennale with Concrete Jungle A rock wall on the external nave of the Gesù Divino Lavoratore in Marghera

This year, at the Venice Architecture Biennale the Italian Pavilion will be realised under the direction of Fosbury Architecture, a curatorial agency that has created nine projects for the occasion. One of these is Concrete Jungle, an idea in collaboration with Elia Fornari of Brain Dead, which, starting from the concept of the metropolis as a historical institution, analyses the relationship between nature and artifice through an installation on the external nave of the Parish Church of Jesus Divine Worker in Marghera. 

With the same aim as the project that Elia Fornari curated for the Biennale, Brain Dead's Summer 23 collection explores the role that every human has in the ecosystem, offering a functional capsule created from resilient materials. From the Wiggly line of costumes, decorated with prints by artist Ema Gaspar, to shirts featuring drawings by cartoonist Tetsunori Tawaraya, each item in the new collection expresses bursts of originality while retaining all the features necessary for extreme outdoor activities.