Let It Become What It Needs To Be
Let It Become What It Needs to Be unfolds as a spatial composition of fragments, translations, and open structures—a proposal for how architecture might emerge through resistance, care, and temporal occupation. Developed by TAELON7 / Juergen Benson-Strohmayer in dialogue with artist and activist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, founder of the Kumasi-based crazinisT artisT studiO, the exhibition builds on a transdisciplinary practice shaped by local building culture and subaltern spatial production. It approaches architecture not as static form, but as a situated method: dynamic, open-ended, and grounded in lived conditions.
Three interwoven zones shape the exhibition. Thresholds of Light draws from Fiatsi’s live-work studio, where layered textiles and lightweight frameworks divide space and filter light. These found techniques are reinterpreted in Vienna through suspended fabrics and tensioned geometries, forming soft architectures of transition, privacy, and exposure.
Temporal Structures presents the evolving design of the adjacent civic complex, the crazinisT artisT studiO compleX (TTOX), a phased architectural ensemble comprising Field, Kiosk, and Tower, through models, drawings, and animations.
Lines of Action documents a temporary urban intervention realized in Kumasi in April 2025, activated through gatherings and happenings. It is accompanied by archival research on queer struggles in Ghana during a period of intensifying anti-LGBT+ persecution. Within a textile installation, a recorded conversation with Fiatsi reflects on the body as resistance and architecture as a medium for liberation.
Across all zones and projects, a shared material vocabulary—tensile structures, textile, filtered light—threads through the exhibition. This language spans geographies and media, linking the civic complex, the urban intervention, and the studio environment. The result is part of an evolving method: mobile and open to future transformation, including its return to Kumasi.
Let It Become What It Needs to Be
Architecture as Process, Care, and Resistance
June 6–August 1, 2025
MAGAZIN—Exhibition Space for Contemporary Architecture
Rembrandtstrasse 14/1a, 1020 Vienna, Austria