{"id":3440,"date":"2026-09-08T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:41:55","slug":"benjamin-orlow-ritual-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/benjamin-orlow-ritual-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Orlow \u2014 Ritual City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Ritual City, Benjamin Orlow treats sculpture as a body whose cohesion remains uncertain. Raw clay, monumental fragments and exposed supports set material fragility against architectural authority. At the Nordic Pavilion, the figure does not appear as a finished monument: it seems still to be negotiating its own existence. This tension between construction and collapse opens a political as well as material question: what holds a community upright?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZHWYX6koVw\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"max-width:540px;width:100%;margin:20px auto;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZHWYX6koVw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the original video<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Work: 2026. Nordic Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 9 May\u201322 November 2026. Nordic Pavilion video published 3 June 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/fininst.uk\/media\/news\/benjamin-orlow-will-present-nordic-pavilion-at-the-venice-biennale-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source and context<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ritual City, Benjamin Orlow treats sculpture as a body whose cohesion remains uncertain. Raw clay, monumental fragments and exposed supports set material fragility against architectural authority. At the Nordic Pavilion, the figure does not appear as a finished monument: it seems still to be negotiating its own existence. This tension between construction and collapse opens a political as well as material question: what holds a community upright?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}