Limbo Engawa — TAELON7

The canopies are cut from old billboards. TAELON7, the practice Juergen Benson-Strohmayer runs between Austria and West Africa, stripped steel out of Accra's advertising hoardings, sliced it into strips and wove it onto frames light enough for one person to carry and assemble on site. Underneath sit oversized daybeds copied from the woven beds that construction crews already sleep on inside unfinished buildings across the region. The whole assembly went into the Limbo Museum, a 600-square-meter unfinished neo-brutalist estate in Labone that Dominique Petit-Frère and Emil Grip took over rather than completed. Metalwork by Joseph Awumee, weaving led by Briena Montana, support from the Austrian Cultural Forum in Accra. It ran March 12 to April 12; this fall the same components come apart and go back up at Art Omi in Ghent, New York, as a freestanding pavilion in open fields. Petit-Frère has said plainly what it is for: an annual architectural commission in Africa, on the Serpentine model. That is the part worth watching. One pavilion is a project; a commission that returns every year is an institution, and that is the thing she says the continent has not had.