Around the day in 80 worlds

In this first edition of Periple Duet, a cycle of residencies on-the-move, the Triennale convenes emerging figures from LINA community to create and undergo a thematic itinerary that unites the city where they live with Lisbon.

From a collection of artefacts and images gathered during his journey, Allan Mensah builds a reflection that appropriates the title of an anthology of short stories by Julio Cortázar. Questioning what it means to go from one place to another, on his way he encounters immanent objects, heterogeneous landscapes and borders to cross in order to address what these produce or inhibit: displacement.

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Tevi Allan Mensah

The imaginaries of border territories are a recurring theme in his practice that intersects artistic creation and architecture to interrogate the role of this discipline as a means of collective communication. Allan Mensah co-founded in 2019 the collective frontières* dedicated to publishing in architecture, in 2022 he co-created a micro-festival of architecture, Balthazar, and currently teaches in the master chair 'Utopie/Dystopie' at ENSA Lyon. 

About Periple Duet

For this premiere, the duo is composed of Ajda Bračič and Tevi Allan Mensah who traveled through more than 20 cities by collective means of land transportation, on rails or wheels, for a reflection on architecture and landscape framed by notions of border, fluidity, mobility, or heritage, both material and immaterial. Travelling becomes the raw material of an exercise in observation: experiencing territorial diversity, reducing distances and extending limits.

Their experience was shared in a public event joining the artist Pedro Tropa, the filme director Graça Castanheira and the artist Tatiana Macedo at Palácio Sinel de Cordes. (Know more)