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"For this XIVth Venice Biennale architecture exhibition, general curator Rem Koolhaas makes an ambitious and grandiose attempt to create a collective history of modernity, its project, dissemination and absorption, between inescapable globalization and powerful resistance to identity. For the first Moroccan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, we sought to identify Morocco's voice in this dissonant concert of the Grand Siècle.
"Fundamental(ism)s, is a reflection on the radical and experimental approaches. A welcoming land for nascent modernity, Morocco was, above all, a territory of exploration, a laboratory for the project of modernism. Morocco has enabled, and perhaps called for, architectural research at the limits (constructive and material, formal and architectural and architectonic, but also domestic and social), experiments that contributed to the history of architecture. But Moroccan genius has also, acclimatized, metabolized and, in the end, hijacked the modern project. For me, this is Morocco's great contribution to the architectural and urban adventure of the 20th century. Moroccan tradition is one of modernity and radicalism, but also of integration and diversion, and detour."