Guest of Honour 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair

USPA NEWS - This Pavilion is a constellation of spheres, a display of differences, inviting you to enter an immersive experience. You are expected to walk around, leisurely, becoming flaneurs of the day, enjoying simple discoveries. Following the Guest of Honour´s theme, i.e.“17,000 Islands of Imagination“ ...

...it is designed to bring the diversity of Indonesia, evoking its artistic and intellectual sources, its legacy and its current creativity. The pavilion takes “the sea“ and “the islands“ as the motif of its space, form and color arrangement. The 2400 square meters exhibition hall is transformed into a formation of openings, called “islands“, separated from one another by the “sea“. “Islands“ are space of different kind of activities, while “sea“ becomes the permeable barrier to be explored; mysterious and full of surprises.

“The sea“ is represented by rows of semi-transparent lanterns hanging from the ceiling. They define the space and display the content of the exhibition: phrases from poetry, video projections, children books` and comics` illustrations, et cetera. Lights and shadows are the pavilion`s shifting foundation ““ a visual allegory of the sea ““ that drapes a string of “islands“, each with its own narrative: performance, words, images, tales, spices, texts of the past, and inquiries. “Our journey inside the pavilion`s spheres underlines the fact that the world of books are an edifice built on ever-changing encounters“, said main architect Muhammand Thamrin. Some times later the Minister of Culture Anies Baswedan, showed up and was greeting the audience.