Offstage Onstage/Offstage is a two-panel landscape collage comprised of more than 3,500 images. Each image manifests varying aspects of platform urbanism around the world, from start-up villages, boutique street festivals and corporate work/live campuses, to ghost kitchens, labour camps and the global delivery chains of container ports, distribution centres and bike couriers. Spread across the two side galleries of the pavilion, the diptych visually investigates the emergent architecture of platform urbanism and the impact these new spatial typologies have on the creation of all-encompassing worlds. 

Collage, as a medium based on layering, allows for the exploration of recurring formal qualities from composition to colour to saturation, which in turn indicate platforms' tactical re-use and repetition of a certain set of aesthetic formats to create visions of desirable environments. Drawing on the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Baroque landscape painting, Onstage/0ffstage harkens back to artistic renderings of imaginary worlds employed to propagate collective beliefs in quasi-natural With its opulent and bucolic settings, it gestures towards a genealogy in which glorification without substance and praxis as separate from being have emerged as the foundational parameters of our current economic paradigm. To explore the ensuing transformation of human habitats, two scenes of platform urbanism are posited for contemplation: the staged landscape of an intoxicating, super-saturated reality of techno-capitalist salvation, and the sparse 'in-between', an underworld of platform urbanism, where we bear witness to the camouflaged support structures of speculative world-making.