Escape Manual
“It’s gonna be ok, just imagine you are a country,”
whispered the architect to Baby Grecia.
“That’s what all the other Pavilions are doing.”
Escape Manual is Andreas Angelidakis’ exhibition catalogue for the 61st Biennale di Venezia. The book presents an elaborate visual archive of the artist’s research and sketches materialising into Escape Room, his immersive installation for the Greek Pavilion. Featuring original collages and texts, the research is queered into a personal narrative articulated through the perspective of Grecia, the pavilion personified.
Through layers of historical documents, magazines, renders, photos, and screenshots, the book explores the tension of national pavilions as a typology at the intersection of art, politics, and architecture. Occupying the space between a diary, a school reader, and a coming-of-age story, Escape Manual is an exercise in speculative storytelling, offering a non-linear historical account from 1934—the year of the pavilion’s construction—to this day.
Editorial Team: Ioli kavakou, Andreas Angelidakis, George Bekirakis
Design: Oddd Studio / Em Kei
The book is currently available for PREORDER. Shipping will begin on May 18th.
- 22,8 x 30,4 cm
- 218
- EN
- 2026
- 978-88-8056-353-2
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