THE RECESS 027 (part 3)

Venice Biennale special: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly - PART 3: THE UGLY

14 May 2025

So far we have looked at the best of Venice Biennale, then we dove down into Carlo Ratti’s central exhibition which contained some of the worst — and here, in our final part, we look at the Ugly. Not Ugly in aesthetics, but in politics, power, privilege, and ethics — and ironically it involves a designer who declares that he hates “ugly” buil…