On Thursday, May 18, the Government of Mexico, through the Secretariat of Culture, celebrated the inauguration of the Mexican Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2023, with the proposal "Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball Court". The pavilion, which had an investment of 9,059,600 pesos, aims to invite dialogue and play to engage in conversations about the topics that concern the world of architecture in relation to various aspects of social, cultural, and political life.
During the opening ceremony at the Old Naval Complex of the Arsenale in Venice, Dolores Martinez Orralde, the Deputy General Director of INBAL (the Mexican government's cultural body responsible for preserving and disseminating Mexico's artistic heritage), accompanied by photographer Antonio Turok, the architectural curators, representatives of the APRDELESP firm, and the Biennale's coordinator, Mariana Munguía Matute, read a welcome message on behalf of Lucina Jiménez López, the General Director of INBAL. In the message, she emphasized that the Government of Mexico, through the Secretariat of Culture and INBAL, stated the following:
