Line; Part; Real Estate (laundry baskets), 2023

If by architecture we refer to the construction of habitable spaces and their capacity to materialize the political, cultural and technological context of a civilization, with these works I wonder: what form do the structures that have also offered habitability and built civilization have, the ones that have not capitalize neither visually nor politically and have gone unnoticed?

This question spearheaded my research in Rome (2022-23) during my residency at the American Academy, in which I traced sensual correspondences between urban materialities and their inhabitants. Thus, actions such as falling, hugging, violating, supporting, providing, pushing, appeared as somatic behaviors of architectural and archaeological structures from which I could start speculating about possible silenced stories in their stones and bricks.

 

 

Line, 2023

Baby chair, cardboard, FastMaché, wood, fabric, acrylic paint, pigments, pencil, bricks, cement

88,5 x 231 x 80 cm  – Photo: Roberto Ruiz

 

Part, 2023

Chair, cardboard, FastMaché, wood, fabric, acrylic paint, watercolor, pencil, brick, cups

81 x 194 x 81 cm  – Photo: Danielle Molajoli

 

Real Estate, 2023

Cardboard, FastMaché, wood, rebar, fabric, acrylic paint, cleaning cloths, cast pigmented resin

175 x 95 x 60 cm – Photo: Danielle Molajoli