Grenfell Total System Failure at Milan Trienalle
The “Grenfell: Total System Failure” installation, curated by Kimia Zabihyan, addresses the systemic failures and community resilience surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire is on show as part the 24th Triennale Milano Exhibition, Inequalities which explores the deepening disparities that shape contemporary urban and global life. Featured in the exhbition is my Grenfell Billboard Design from 2024, with a special produced AR layer for the show which combines the AR layers from the 2024 and 2023 billboards shown at Holland Park Roundabout.
The installation was given an Honorable Mention in the Trienalle’s BEE Awards
The Jury was Paola Antonelli (President), Senior Curator and Director of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York; Ife Adedeji, journalist and author; Francesca Lavazza, Board Member of Lavazza Group and President of the Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea; and Maria Porro, President of the Salone del Mobile.Milano.
: https://triennale.org/en/magazine/jury-bee-awards-international-exhibition
Some press articles:
Design Boom
“This deeply moving installation by Grenfell Next of Kin honors the lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire. Featuring works by artists including Chris Ofili and Khadija Saye, alongside film and quilted memorials, it exposes systemic failures and community resilience. The exhibition is both testimony and resistance.”
https://www.designboom.com/design/designboom-ultimate-guide-24th-triennale-milano-international-exhibition-2025-05-22-2025/
Disegno
https://disegnojournal.com/newsfeed/inequalities-triennale-milano
Wallpaper
https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/triennale-milano-international-exhibition-2025-inequalities
TL Magazine
https://tlmagazine.com/inequalities-at-the-triennale-milano/
University of Bedfordshire
https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2025/may/bedfordshire-academic-displays-work-at-prestigious-art-exhibition/
An exhibition (that stays with you), a political act
Inequalities is a difficult but necessary Triennale. An event that challenges visitors to break out of the reassuring geometries of the facade of inclusiveness to confront the real fractures of our time. It is a Triennale that is not content merely to show, but to question. It demands to be listened to. It asks us to come to terms with our share of responsibility. There is no neutrality in being in the world, as every room, every map, every voice seems to tell us. Stefano Boeri has written that it is not about dividing the world into two, but about recognizing the myriad differences that run through it. And to find in them not a reason for conflict, but the key to a new coexistence. A radically political message. In an age that prizes appearance, Milan chooses divergence, doubt, complexity. Here, once again, it has a lesson to impart.
https://www.salonemilano.it/en/articles/24-triennale-milano-international-exhibition