School of Architecture graduate student Fabio Lima (HP ’26) has been selected for the 2025 Canada Council for the Arts Venice Architecture Biennale Fellowship. In August, Lima will join the cohort of fellows overseeing the daily operations of the Canada Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello during the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The fellowship will also support his independent research, which examines strategies for commemorating deaths marked by social stigma and queer uses of space in Venice.
Lima explains, “Venice offers a rich case study that illuminates early biopolitical strategies of bodily categorization and surveillance, from the bubonic plague of the mid-14th century to the covert sexual subcultures of the late Renaissance. In Venice, insularity’s inherent ‘apartness’ was reinterpreted by successive groups, giving rise to quarantine stations in the Lazzaretti and cruising grounds in Giudecca’s Garden of Eden.”
